From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 22:07:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA14244 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA14239 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 27574 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Nov 1997 06:07:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-103097 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199711040242.TAA15381@usr09.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 22:07:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Help in data recovery Cc: gopu@global.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Terry Lambert; On 04-Nov-97 you wrote: > > 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-) He is laughing and I am crying :-)) This was the standard mode of operation as recently as the Tahoe project. But really was the only way to install Unix on a PDP11. You mount the tape and watch in amazement as the hours go by. The amazement came from the fact that it actually booted. --- If Microsoft Built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313