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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Help in data recovery
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 02:42:57 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gopu@global.com
In-Reply-To: <19971103074838.HP19395@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 3, 97 07:48:38 am
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> Surely Julian didn't want you to run fdisk on a tape drive. :-)  So
> just type `fdisk', and it will pick up the first disk for you.

If the manufacturer didn't want me to put a filesystem on a device,
then they'd make it so the device wasn't block addressable.  Otherwise
it gets an FS...

mount -t ansitape /dev/rst0 /mnt

8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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