Re: Reading a tar file on a DDS tape in DOS/Windows

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From: Henrik Andersson
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:20

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Laurent-David Hasson wrote:
>
>   I have a 4mm DDS tape that contains a TAR archive made under UNIX. I want to
> read it into my DOS/95 machine. I have looked at several TAR utilities, but it
> seems that either they are specific to Adaptec adapters, or do no deal with SCSI
> tape drives.
>
>  I have a HP DDS-DC drive, and a BusLogic adapter.
>
>  I would appreciate any help with poiters to the right utility for extracting
> that file.
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent.
>

I'm using aspi-tar (don't know if it's the correct name), you just have to load the
normal aspi-driver (in config.sys or Win95) and use tar
(like tar xvf /dev/ct blablabl...) 

I think Aspi is a standard set by Adaptec, but most scsi-cards have aspi-drivers.
I'm using a NCR 810 (SC-200) scsi-2 card and an Exabyte 8200 drive under both
Linux and dos/windows and it works fine with aspi-tar.

/Henrik
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 12:20:27 +0200
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