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
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