[rescue] OT: can a tape device be mounted?

[Guy Yasko]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Sandau <ssandau at bath.tmac.com> writes:

    Steve> I had had a similar thought a while back relating to mp3
    Steve> files and a 8gb 8mm tape. )That would play for a while,
    Steve> eh?) I was going to use a buffering program called "bag"
    Steve> that helped us buffer input from a ncpfs-mounted Netware
    Steve> server when we backed it up to the 8mm drive on a Linux
    Steve> box.

    Steve> Sorry, but that's as far as I got. ;) I thought that
    Steve> something like dd would read the tape, pipe the output to
    Steve> bag which would then pipe the output to a command-line mp3
    Steve> player....


why that sounds like... 

a DAT audio tape drive.




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