An open-source tape driver or the Mac operating system. #Mac tape driver #OSX tape driver #Unix tape driver #Unix #Tape driver #API
IOSCSITape is a free and open source program that provides a typical Unix-like tape driver for Mac OS X. This allows for standard utilities like tar to directly read and write to tape.
Despite being a Unix-like operating system Mac OS X has never included a Unix-like tape driver. Since Mac OS X's release in 2001 Apple has instead wanted developers to use a separate Mac OS X-proprietary API for accessing devices like tape drives.
Unfortunately this forces developers to reinvent an already well-established wheel. As well to adapt to said API would limit the flexibility and platform-agnostic nature of some standard and very popular tools and methodologies of working with tape drives.
IOSCSITape provides a typical Unix-like character device file (e.g. /dev/rst0) with accompanying tool (mt) for tape drive manipulation on Mac OS X. IOSCSITape aims to bring the capability of running standard tools like tar and dd as well as popular tools like Amanda and Bacula to Mac OS X.
Note: IOSCSITape is not yet intended for production use. It has had limited testing on a very limited set of hardware and is still in early development. Use at your own risk.
Detailed instructions on how to install and use the IOSCSITape utility on your Mac are available HERE.
What's new in IOSCSITape 0.2:
- Compiled for Intel 32 and 64 bit Universal. Should work in Mac OS X 10.6 and Mac OS X 10.7 including 64-bit kernel modes.
IOSCSITape 0.2
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- Mac OS X 10.6 or later (PPC & Intel)
- file size:
- 45 KB
- filename:
- IOSCSITape-0.2.pkg
- main category:
- System Utilities
- developer:
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