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@PetteriAimonen, I did some basic SCSI tape testing with 'mt' under Linux, and identified eight commands that immediately induce an I/O error. The erase command is probably the most critical, followed by the compression command. These should probably all be no-ops for now. Do you have an opinion?
One candidate for an existing variable length record tape image format to use could be AWSTAPE which is used by the Hercules mainframe emulator. It already comes with a tool called "tapecopy" which can copy between AWSTAPE image files and real tapes. Its source can be used as an example to understand how the format is used: https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion/blob/master/tapecopy.c
While Hercules provides an open source implementation of the format, it originates from IBM and has been used in their virtual tape libraries for a long time. So there's probably a lot of tape images already out there in that format.
@PetteriAimonen, I did some basic SCSI tape testing with 'mt' under Linux, and identified eight commands that immediately induce an I/O error. The erase command is probably the most critical, followed by the compression command. These should probably all be no-ops for now. Do you have an opinion?
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