January 12th, 2011 | 
Author: Every intermediate to advanced Linux user knows that the linux kernal can recognize hardware inputs immediately (ie /dev/hda, /dev/sda) and so forth. I know that inputs are usually usb, firewire, scsi,etc,–which is how you can backup data to minidv. I have to imagine there would be a way to achieve this with a vcr and vcr tapes.
I have a vcr which I never use and like 20 brand new vhs tapes that I’ll never use! This would be a great way to put these items to use at low-no expense. I know a min-dv will hold 10-20GBs of data. A VCR tape should hold much more. I consider myself a hacker in that I like to know what makes things work and find different ways of doing things.
Thanks for all relative replies in advance,
tsairox
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The “dv” in “min-dv” stands for “digital video”.
The “digital” part is very important, you can store data on a min-dv because it stores digital data that doesn’t necessarily have to be video, but to store digital data on a VHS tape is more difficult because it stores video in an analog fashion, so storing digital data on it requires special equipment and would probably at best work as well as the old Tandy tape drives that used to record data on audio tapes. Obviously you should be able to record a lot more on a VHS tape than you could on an audio tape but you will need some very specially engineered equipment to do it.