On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Dave Wade <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would it not be a SMOP to get a SCSI2SD device to emulate a tape drive? > > I am not sure, it looks there is some code in there for tape but its very > minimal. > In addition there are no interfaces on the card to select the ".tap" file > to be used. > > Not needed; copy the .tap file directly to the SD card, no partition tables, no file system: dd if=foo.tap of=/dev/sdx Fix up the firmwre (a SMOP) with a pointer to where you are in the .tap data; it starts at block 0, offset 0 at the location would be the first block size word of the .tap data. Treat the disk as a file; read reads the data at the pointer and moves the pointer to the end of the read. Assuming LBA, the pointer value maps directly to block number/offset. Fill out the SCSI tape commands to use the pointer and the data. -- Charles
