http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/
On 8/10/16 8:22 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:22 AM, asw...@t-online.de wrote: >> >> I successfully took a (factory new) DEC TSZ07 SCSI tape drive into operation >> using a Sun SS20 and a Linux box. >> >> Now I do have a big pile of CDC, DEC, HP, Convex and IBM tapes and I'd like >> to create tape images to file to save the tapes content. >> >> What is the to be preferred procedure to image the tapes, which software to >> use and which kind of format to store the images? > > Tor gave one answer, and it is certainly a useable one. But the more > straightforward answer is to use an existing well-defined format. "TAP" > format, as used in SIMH, will do nicely. There are slight variations in > that format, but I'd suggest looking at the SIMH documentation for a > description and using that. The summary description is in the SIMH User's > Guide, appendix A.3. > > I believe there are off the shelf open source tools to read a SCSI tape on > Unix and generate a .TAP format file from it, but I haven't used them so I > don't have the names at my fingertips. > > You may end up needing to do some postprocessing for some machines, depending > on what precise format those emulators want. For the case of CDC, TAP format > is good because DtCyber uses that as well. > > paul >
