What tape drive would you recommend?

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Randy Rathbun wrote:

> Also, before I forget - anyone know of a program/method that will
> allow me to write MP3s to a 4mm tape? I dont mean to play in a DAT
> drive - I want to stream the files off of them so I can just insert a
> tape, load up XMMS and have a nice couple of hours of music. There is
> a thing for Windows that will let you do this, but I have not found
> squat for Linux.

Well, I'd suggest reading the man page for 'tar' and think "pipes".

J.

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