Rak ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : Marco wrote: : >I am looking for software that will let me convert 9 track reel : >tapes to DDS/DAT tapes. I need to convert compatibility mode : >STORE, Native Mode STORE, and BPXL STORE tapes. Any suggestions : >would be appreciated. Thanks... : >Marco Martin : >Senior Computer Tech, Information Systems : >Elk Grove Unified School District : >[log in to unmask] : >916-686-7710 (voice) : Yes! TDTCOPY.PRVXL.TELESUP will do what you want. : ^ oops (i think this is the group) : Use a filequation "file input;dev=tape" to load in the store. : TDTcopy then makes a compressed file of the tape. (remember the : file name). : Exit program and use fileq "file input;dev=dds" to output saved : store tape image. Works fine. We needed to use it a few days : ago. There is a gotcha here (and also for STORCOPY): Some tape drives can write in records > 16 Kwords when a particular option is specified in Turbostore (MAXTAPEBUF?). HP7978B and HP7980A/XC drives are known to have this capability. Using these utiities can truncate these "long" records and make the resulting tapes useless. This is a limitation on the file system (FOPEN can only handle a record size of 16 Kwords) and these utilities *Do* use FOPEN. To see what other drives could induce this problem, do a "HELP STORE PARMS". If you use these utilities, make sure you confirm your tape via VALIDATE, VSTORE, or whatever appropriate for the format you are copying. The fore-mentioned XOVER utility is another way to go. There is also a tape copying utility supplied with CD-ROM releases. If you get your MPE updates on MP, this might be worth looking at. I haven't tried it personally, but I know it was intended to duplicate combination SLT/STORE tapes, even if multi-reel. I don't know if it will reconize a non-SLT tape. I believe the name of the file is "TAPECOPY.HPINSTAL.SYS". -- Mike Ryan @ Hewlett Packard Co.