On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Paul F Almquist wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:46:46PM -0700, Norma Thompson wrote:
> > Somewhere, I think I read a blurb about being able to use a tape drive as
> > though it were another hard/floppy drive. Is this correct?
>
> Many years ago Digital Equipment Corp had a tape drive that had addressed
> data blocks. Programs could ramdomly fetch data by block address but the
> tape was scanned sequentially of course. This was in the days when disk
> drives were very expensive.
>
> I have not heard of this in linux yet. Maybe you read of a reference to
> tape drives that are connected to the floppy disk controller. I have one
> on my home machine. It is referenced as /dev/ftape and I have been using
> tar for doing my backup and restores. It works. Colorado Jumbo 250 I
> think is the model. It's about 3 years old.
>
> paul
>
There is a product for Windows 95/NT made by Seagate called Direct Tape
Access that does just this (assuming of course, that you also use
Seagate's backup software...) but I do not know of anything for linux that
offers this capability.
Tim
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