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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:02:21 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
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> On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> So you mount it read-only...
> 
> 

Still won’t work.    Seek doesn’t work right.