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General Description 

"mtd" is a command line utility to:

  • Create a CHARON tape image from a physical tape.

  • Write a tape image to a physical tape.

Open "cmd.exe" in the Start menu, to start the utility, and switch to the CHARON-AXP x64 utilities directory (C:\Program Files\CHARON\Utilities_X.X.XXXXX\x64").

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Usage 

The following is an example of the usage syntax:

...> mtd [options] <tape device name> <tape container name>

 

Options:

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Creates a log file. The name is "file name".

...

Ignore bad blocks and continue processing w/o interruption. It implies "-r 0"

...

Enable verbose tracing of data transfer (implies "-p")

 

Example:

...> mtd -l tape1.txt -r 10 \\.\Tape0 "C:\Charon\Tapes\tape1.vtape"

 

Use the following syntax to write the content of a tape container to a physical tape:

...> mtd <tape container name> <tape device name>

 

Example:

CHARON-AXP and CHARON-VAX V4.12 for Windows - mtd
PDC:CHARON-AXP and CHARON-VAX V4.12 for Windows - mtd