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This article is from the storage FAQ part2, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions by others.

3.24 Tapes as Disks

    There are several packages around (mostly for PCs) that will let you
use a tape drive like a disk drive.  Of course, it's very slow
unless it uses some disk-based information as well.

See http://www.tapedisk.com for one such product. (rdv, 96/11/4)
    

 

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