I don't believe taper understands the directory structure of the Windows
programs.
Though I could be wrong.
Windows keeps it's directories at the front of the tape in a special block
allocated for this purpose.
Taper and most Linux programs don't use this, but conform to a more unixlike
approach, keeping the file names "in line" with the data blocks.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 10:59 PM
To: expert list
Subject: Re: [expert] Tape drive Question(s)
On Monday 15 January 2001 10:36 am, you wrote:
> While going through some boxes of "old stuff" I came across an Iomega
> parallel port Easy 800 tape drive and some old tapes. The tapes conform
> to Travan (TR-1) format and QIC-80 format.
>
> Is there any way to use this tape drive, with Linux, long enough to get
> some files written with Iomega Windows 3.1 software? My son used this
> drive to store some graphics files when he was in high school and I was
> just wondering if I could retrieve them.
>
> Where do I go, what do I read, what software do I need? Preferably
> something GUI.
David,
Theres a cool little DOS like GUI on Mandrake called Taper. You start it
from
a command line like this:
taper -T <device-name>
My tape drive is SCSI so I use a command something like this;
taper -T st0
I'm not real sure exactly what the device name for a paralell port device
such as yours, but I'm sure the program info might be able to tell you a
little more about it.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
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