10 Jun
2015
10 Jun
'15
8:40 a.m.
> Using dd to read tapes to disk discards the block
size information.
And that is precisely why I'm thinking of an
ad-hoc interface rather
than just plugging a SCSI drive into a UNIX box.
It's eminently possible to image tapes sanely on a unix box. See e.g.:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/
The main limitation seems to be that it's hard to get the (broken) data
from a block that had a read error when using SCSI
hardware. There's
probably a way around this if one digs into lower layers of
SCSI magic;
I haven't gone looking.
De