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I have seen ONE product called TapeDisk that claims that it can make accessing a 
SCSI tape drive as if it were a regular HD (besides performance of course). I 
uess that what it does is to install a new file system and mounts the tape drive 
as a drive letter. 

Last weekend, i also saw on the Arcada software that they too, were aout to 
release a similar product (although, it is quite funny, they claim that their 
product is entirely new, and revolutionary, as if TapeDisk did not exist).

Does anyone have any experience with such a product. Is it common to be able to 
mount a tape drive directly into the file system of an OS? Linux? NT? Solaris? 
If it were, it would make more sense to use a tape drive that way and use 
standard tools like Zip, Tar, or simply copy...

Where is the catch? Am i missing something? Or is it simply one of these things 
that everyone knows about, but which is unknown to lowly indows users?

{:)


Thanks,
Laurent.


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