ULTRIX ltf

 

There is a ltf utility available under ULTRIX which allows reading/writing data from/to an ANSI label tape.

• Reading tapes

  Example: reading 2 raw data files from an Exabyte cartridge. The drive has SCSI ID 5 and is allocated to the special file rmt5h (-f)

  ltf -xvf /dev/rmt5h run_0001.lmd run_0002.lmd

• Writing tapes

  Example: writing 2 raw data files with recordlength 8192 bytes (-B) to a new Exabyte cartridge named T00001 (-L). The drive has SCSI ID 5 and is allocated to the special file rmt5h (-f).

  ltf -cavLfB T00001 /dev/rmt5h 8192 run_0001.lmd run_0002.lmd

  Note that the -ca flag is needed to generate a level 3 ANSI tape. Appending is not possible. File names are restricted to 17 characters.