TSZ07 (was Re: Stuff I want - all I want is a "0")

[Ethan Dicks]

On 4/29/05, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
> 
> "Ashley Carder" wrote:
> >
> >I have a TSZ07, but I haven't tried to use it yet.  Does anyone
> >know what operating systems I can use it with on a PC?
> 
> I'm assuming the linux scsi driver will "just work".  I may try today.

It does.  When I first got my TSZ07 a few years ago, I pulled out an
Adaptec 1640 PCMCIA SCSI card, threw it in my RedHat laptop, and was
sending 'mt' commands a few seconds later.

What I could use is a good breakdown of available tools to pull some
old VMS backups off of some of my 1600 bpi tapes... I have used a
variety of tools over the years, but do not know what the current
'best' tools are.  Initially, I just want to preserve the backup
archives themselves, but I also need to extract some C source code
from the archives.  ISTR 'vmstar' was one tool I used more than ten
years ago.  Not sure if it has been supplanted or is still the tool of
choice.  I really don't know what folks recommend for the initial
extraction.  I am sure 'dd' will work, but I'm/ curious what might
work better/more reliably/more simply.

-ethan