Is there a file system or just a driver for tape?

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From: Todd Little
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 04:07

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I'm looking for ways of support a tape drive on my Amiga.  I can't find
any references to a supported file system or driver for a generic tape drive.
I have a SCSI tape unit and a C Ltd. SCSI host adapter.  Does anyone have
a driver in any form I could use as a basis for creating one?  Or better yet,
has anyone already done this?

Also, once I have the driver, is there a supported mechanism to treat the thing
as some sort of file structured device, similar to how VAX/VMS or RSX11-M treat
tapes as single directory, sequential file structured device?  I guess I'm
looking for a file system for tape.

-tl

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