Pertec Tape Drive Interface Musings

Dennis Boone drb at msu.edu
Wed Jun 10 16:07:13 CDT 2015


 > Earlier, I discussed how I've begun appending metadata to tape image
 > files after the EOM indicator.  Thus far, no simulator chokes on
 > it. I really need to extend it.

I've seen software that doesn't understand EOM marks, though I think
it's never been one of the major simulators.

With that in mind, it might be worth having the putative new spec use a
different name and file extension for itself.

De


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