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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting a tape drive Date: 12 Aug 1996 08:51:25 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4umrad$i04@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <320b56cb.342365578@news.ka.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mark@ka.net (Mark Kinney) wrote: > how do I mount my tape drive? What do you refer by `mount' here? If you wanna mount a filesystem over it, you need a block-addressable tape drive. Sorry, Exabyte is not among them, neither are all the other ``streamers''. Only Good Ol' 9-track (half inch, reel-to-reel) tapes offer this feature. Anyway, it's certainly musing to do it, even with a 9-track drives. You need a rather simple file system, and it will take hours to operate on it nevertheless. With something sophisticated like BSD FFS, which has been optimized for disk storage, it will basically become a neverending story. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j