4 Mar
1999
4 Mar
'99
4:46 p.m.
Hi,
Could someone who is subscribed to the digest version of the list please
(compress and) email me a copy of digest #698? I lost it due to problems with
my mail software.
Somewhat on-topic question: can someone recommend a program, to run under
MS-DOS (or maybe Windows) that is capable of reading a file (in the tape
sense) from a SCSI tape drive. Not interpreting the file at all, just being
able to copy it to disk.
-- Mark
4 Mar
4 Mar
5:13 p.m.
New subject: Reading old SCSI tapes
At 10:46 PM 3/4/99 +0000, Mark wrote:
Somewhat on-topic question: can someone recommend a program, to run under
MS-DOS (or maybe Windows) that is capable of reading a file (in the tape
sense) from a SCSI tape drive. Not interpreting the file at all, just being
able to copy it to disk.
What sort of tape drive? If it's supported under Linux, and it probably is,
then 'dd' would certainly do it. I've got some very old utilities that
work with my Exabyte for DOS that might help, too. Even under NT,
the tape interface API is quite simple and there are 'dd' equivalents
that might be able to handle it.
- John
5:46 p.m.
New subject: Reading old SCSI tapes
Sigh, I've had this problem as well and not found a decent solution for it.
What Mark needs is a program that talks to the ASPI DLL to get access to
the SCSI bus directly. Sure it can be done under Linux or any other UNIX
like operating system on x86 hardware but when the tape drive is connected
to a PC running windows and there is no opportunity to install a different
OS, then this problem arises.
--Chuck
At 10:46 PM 3/4/99 +0000, Mark wrote:
Somewhat on-topic question: can someone recommend a
program, to run under
MS-DOS (or maybe Windows)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
At 05:13 PM 3/4/99 -0600, John Foust wrote:
What sort of tape drive? If it's supported under
Linux, and it probably is,
^^^^^^
9:15 p.m.
New subject: Reading old SCSI tapes
At 03:46 PM 3/4/99 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
Sigh, I've had this problem as well and not found a
decent solution for it.
What Mark needs is a program that talks to the ASPI DLL to get access to
the SCSI bus directly. Sure it can be done under Linux or any other UNIX
like operating system on x86 hardware but when the tape drive is connected
to a PC running windows and there is no opportunity to install a different
OS, then this problem arises.
I've got Adaptec ASPI for DOS, and it has an API, and I've got a
few DOS programs that'll talk to it - freeware even. There's ASPI for
Windows, and there's a few more freeware that'll talk to it.
Some of them want the data to be 'tar', though. That's why I asked
him what sort of drive he had.
- John
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