Re: Mounting a SCSI DAT Tape drive as a drive letter...

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From: Rob Woerner
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 04:45

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In article <4f6oej$mp9@steel.interlog.com> ldh@interlog.com (Laurent-Daid Hasson) writes:
>
>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). 
>
>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?
>

The catch is that you have to write a filesystem driver for the tape device. 
This is not a trivial task.

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