Re: Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...

2000-12-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 19 2000, Stelian Pop wrote: > > > Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape > > > device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw > > > as name (for example), I'd like to be able to do: > > > [...] > > > What you describe is actually one of the goals

Re: Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...

2000-12-19 Thread Stelian Pop
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:04:42PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape > > device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw > > as name (for example), I'd like to be able to do: > > [...] > What you describe is actually one of t

Re: Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...

2000-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Dec 18 2000, Stelian Pop wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got this idea some time ago, thinking it would really be > a neat thing... > > Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape > device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw > as name (for example), I'd l

Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...

2000-12-18 Thread Stelian Pop
Hi folks, I've got this idea some time ago, thinking it would really be a neat thing... Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw as name (for example), I'd like to be able to do: mt -f /dev/tcdw rewind