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Re: SCSI Tape Utility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Mandelstam)
Sun Jan 17 03:02:53 1999
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:00:35 +0200 (SAST)
From: Louis Mandelstam <louism@man8.com>
To: John Williams <johnw@io.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990116225952.00c76490@mail.io.com>
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, John Williams wrote:
> I sure wish I could find a tape utility that would just read raw tapes,
> i.e. no tar, no backup format, just records.
>
> Ideally it would be like the old 9-track utilities and would let me read
> variable length records and tell me how long they are. It would also at the
> least allow me to stream a chosen file to disk and rewind. My target is an
> Exabyte 8205 8mm drive.
>
> Any ideas?
dd has always served me well for this purpose and a myriad others.
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