On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Erno Palonheimo wrote:
> 
> > I've understood that if you want to format MSCP disks on a MicroVAX II,
> > you have to use some DEC-supplied utility to do that. If I'm correct, the
> > utility is on a TK50 cartridge, from which you're supposed to boot to the
> > diagnostics utility which also includes formatter.


> 
> I think there is a copyright, but I don't know the legalese of this.
> 
> But apart from that, dd is *not* a usable tool.
> This is a typical example when Unix tools fail miserably. Tapes have
> records, of perhaps different lengths. You need to preserve this
> meta-information when copying tapes, or the copy will not actually be the
> same as the original, even though you have the same bytes on both.

I used something called copytape, and that seems to work out fine.. I'll
try and dig it up the next time I boot the MVII.



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