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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tpqic02: LAST call for help
Date: 13 Dec 1995 22:14:56 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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rdong@mat.jhu.edu (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}) writes:
> Last Friday, I got FreeBSD 2.10 floppies and went into the fixit shell.
> After changing some parameters, mt fsf seemed to work well. (It would exit
> on error under Linux after a lot of screaming.) However mt status crashed
> saying / file system full. (The fixit disk doesn't seem to be mounted in
> the RAM -- need a writable floppy and the read is very slow.)
The / file system call does only mean you couldn't get the core
dump. :-)
mt status for QIC-02 drives is still unsupported. Anyway, let's face
it: you don't really need it. :)
All other commands should work, as long as the underlying hardware
does support it. (It doesn't support block seeks, nor backward file
mark skipping. The latter is a fatal operation on SCSI QIC drives,
too, however. It takes one week and 7 days to complete...)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)