We want to read several TK-50 tapes on a DEC Alpha running UNIX connected to
a TZ-87 tape drive. The TK-50 tapes were written using "copy" on VMS.
Each tape contains some images (binary data) plus may be a few header files.
1. Is it at all possible to recognize/read VMS-written tapes under UNIX on the Alpha?
2. If so, is it possible for Alpha-Unix to recognize VMS file/directory structure on the
tape and convert it to a UNIX-readable format? Is there existing software somewhere that
can do this?
3. Can the Alpha be partitioned to run both VMS and UNIX? What kind of disk space/time
overhead would this mean? (More precisely, a brute-force solution to my problem is to boot the
Alpha under VMS, read the TK-50 tape, switch the machine to run UNIX and then run the code to
analyze the image data. This solution MAY be practical only if switching from VMS to Unix takes
less than 5-minutes.)
I would really appreciate quick responses from knowledgeable folks, as we are racing
to meet a deadline. Please e-mail your responses directly to murthy_at_scr.siemens.com.
Thank you.
- Murthy.
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755 College Road East Email: murthy_at_scr.siemens.com
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~murthy
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Received on Mon Jul 01 1996 - 18:33:45 NZST