24 Mar
2015
24 Mar
'15
5:32 p.m.
On 03/24/2015 01:32 AM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
I read somewhere that manufacturers implemented
compression and the
schemes were incompatible between drive makers. Perhaps this has
caused issues for some..
I do recall, back in my dim memory, that when I was writing software for
the DDS, DLT and 8mm drives, that I would turn off all of extra vendor
features when creating tapes. There were some interesting differences
in the DDS1 drives. And vendor-unique features differed considerably.
Some drives, for example, allowed for read-after-write (i.e. rewriting
of a block), but not all did.
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Speaking of tapes, and not wanting to hijack the thread, but does anyone
here have experience with the Linux ftape (floppy tape) drivers? I'm
about to install them on a Debian Woody setup and wonder if there's
anything that I should be aware of. I *think* that Woody was the last
distro before they were dropped altogether.
--Chuck