2 May
2005
2 May
'05
1:33 a.m.
On 4/29/05, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
"Ashley Carder" wrote:
It does. When I first got my TSZ07 a few years ago, I pulled out an
Adaptec 1640 PCMCIA SCSI card, threw it in my RedHat laptop, and was
sending 'mt' commands a few seconds later.
What I could use is a good breakdown of available tools to pull some
old VMS backups off of some of my 1600 bpi tapes... I have used a
variety of tools over the years, but do not know what the current
'best' tools are. Initially, I just want to preserve the backup
archives themselves, but I also need to extract some C source code
I have a TSZ07, but I haven't tried to use it yet. Does anyone
know what operating systems I can use it with on a PC?
I'm assuming the linux scsi driver will "just work". I may try today.
from the archives. ISTR 'vmstar' was one tool
I used more than ten
years ago. Not sure if it has been supplanted or is still the
tool of
choice. I really don't know what folks recommend for the initial
extraction. I am sure 'dd' will work, but I'm/ curious what might
work better/more reliably/more simply.
-ethan