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Subject: syquest drive on suns to freebsd
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:01:08 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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I want to tar files on a sun to a syquest drive (treating the
media like a tape).

I'm using sunos 4.1.3...How can I treat a low level disk
device as a raw media?  (just reading/writing blocks shouldn't
have to know much, should it?)

It works on freebsd 2.1 and linux...


marty		leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com   
Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org)
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