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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape > 3GB internal for use w/ FreeBSD & Win95
Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:53:46 GMT
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nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote:

> Of course, the hard part is going to be getting a tape drive to
> work under Windows 95. They usually come up as an unknown device
> and just sit there, unusable. :-(

Why?  You've got dd(1) under FreeBSD. :-))

	dd if=/dev/rsd0s1 <or whatever the Winlose slice is> \
	   of=/dev/rst0 bs=32k

(Get a cup of coffee afterwards...)
-- 
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. ;-)