On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 8:42 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now I need a program that can move Tape data back and forth between > real drives and tap/tpc images. Anybody got one? >
I do that on a DOS PC with a Fujitsu M2444AC 1/2-inch tape drive attached to an Computer Logics PCTD16 ISA bus Pertec interface card using a program I hacked up to do that. Works great if you happen to have a Pertec interface tape drive and a PCTD16 card. But that's no help for you. Sticking with a DOS PC there is ST.EXE by John Wilson. I have used that once or twice long ago and don't remember anything about using it now. http://www.dbit.com/pub/ibmpc/util/ http://www.dbit.com/pub/ibmpc/util/README http://www.dbit.com/pub/ibmpc/util/st.txt st SCSI tape utility. Can be used to capture tape images for Ersatz-11, among other things. Use "st -f scsi6: iget foo.tap" to read the entire tape at SCSI ID 6 into the file "foo.tap", suitable for use with E11's MOUNT command. It can also go the other way, use "iput" instead of "iget" to write foo.tap onto the tape. Fixed block sizes with recordless files are also supported, like what you get with the UNIX "dd" program. More often I used an Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm SCSI tape drive attached to CMD CQD SCSI controllers on Q-Bus systems. To write TAP / TPC tape images to the EXB-8200 I used a Linux system with some code that I hacked up to do that. Much easier than trying to figure out how to do that on a Windows system. It's been a while since I last used that, might take a while to find that code.
