Reading raw DAT tape on NT?

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2 total messages Started by Michael Hayworth Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

#249

Author: Michael Hayworth
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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Want to be able to convert our mailing list and prospect database 
from a legacy system to SQL Server on NT on a multiprocessor 
Pentium or Pentium Pro.

Everything looks fine, except for a pretty significant problem I'm 
running into--the legacy system only networks on Arcnet, and then 
only by allowing a DOS partition to be created on its drives that 
another system can access. So I need to be able to get the data 
off the system to put on the new NT machine. I need to be able to 
do this via DAT tape.

I can do a raw dump to tape very similar to what mainframe systems 
do (just using a record size and a blocking factor), but I have 
not currently been able to find any utilities for NT that can read 
these raw tapes. When we purchase mailing list updates from our 
list vendor, they also need to come on these DAT tapes.

I really need something on NT that can read raw tapes just by 
specifying a record size and/or blocking factor--something similar 
to the dd utility under UNIX. Does anyone know of anything like 
that?

-- 
Michael Hayworth
Technology Director
Innovative TeleSolutions

Re: Reading raw DAT tape on NT?

#250

Author: pball
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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I think Tapedisk RAW has exactly what you are looking for, from
Tapedisk Corp.  Their number is 1-715-235-3388.  Good luck.

Michael Hayworth <73233.2014@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>Want to be able to convert our mailing list and prospect database 
>from a legacy system to SQL Server on NT on a multiprocessor 
>Pentium or Pentium Pro.

>Everything looks fine, except for a pretty significant problem I'm 
>running into--the legacy system only networks on Arcnet, and then 
>only by allowing a DOS partition to be created on its drives that 
>another system can access. So I need to be able to get the data 
>off the system to put on the new NT machine. I need to be able to 
>do this via DAT tape.

>I can do a raw dump to tape very similar to what mainframe systems 
>do (just using a record size and a blocking factor), but I have 
>not currently been able to find any utilities for NT that can read 
>these raw tapes. When we purchase mailing list updates from our 
>list vendor, they also need to come on these DAT tapes.

>I really need something on NT that can read raw tapes just by 
>specifying a record size and/or blocking factor--something similar 
>to the dd utility under UNIX. Does anyone know of anything like 
>that?

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