Some years ago, I wrote a program in delphi that would read a "tape image" created by the SimH VAX tape interface. I can send you a copy if you are interested...
Villy ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Elson <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:24 Subject: [Simh] Mag tape interface To: [email protected] > Well, I am now really close to having a mag tape drive working on > a Linux system. The docs confused me, so the bit ordering is > backwards. That will be easy to fix. It is not > detecting file marks, > they just show up as zero-length records. I'll have to > track that > down. > > What I will do next is write a program that reads in a whole > tape to a disk file that is an exact representation of the tape. > So, there would be a 32-bit record indicator that would be 1-65536 > for a block of data, -1 for a file mark, and -2, etc. for various > errors. > > Then, I can write programs that will extract the individual > files from this file > for simple formats. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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