From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:40:17 -0500 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711200854090.780@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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You can’t mount a regular 9 track or many other types because they weren’t block replaceable. Once you wrote the superblock the second time, you lost the rest of the filesystem.
> On Nov 19, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
>
>> You could actually mkfs a DECtape and mount it but the system would stall while rewinding to write the superblock.
>
> The early Sun boxes used to hang when rewinding the cartridge tape, because the controller didn't release the Multibus; the stingy Lionel Singer used to sell the 3/50 as cheap servers...
>
> And you haven't lived until just for fun you put a file system onto a 9-track tape and ran FSCK on it.
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> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-19 13:41 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 21:00 ` William Corcoran
2017-11-19 21:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-19 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-19 22:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-19 22:40 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2017-11-19 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 1:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-20 1:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 18:12 ` Random832
2017-11-20 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 23:35 ` William Pechter
2017-11-21 0:01 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-20 19:02 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Will Senn
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2017-11-20 19:42 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 17:00 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 16:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 17:37 ` Will Senn
2017-11-19 20:46 Steve Simon
2017-11-19 18:45 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 17:49 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 18:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-18 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 21:32 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 21:49 ` Warren Toomey
2017-11-18 18:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 18:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 18:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 21:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-18 21:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:53 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-19 1:47 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 16:39 Will Senn
2017-11-18 18:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-18 20:03 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 22:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-18 23:16 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 23:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-19 0:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-19 0:42 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-19 1:04 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 16:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-20 2:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-18 21:26 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:39 ` Clem Cole
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