From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:00:28 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day In-Reply-To: References: <20171119134109.59F3018C0F5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <7AA20D14-571A-4AAD-96D0-45057F5B81DD@jctaylor.com> Message-ID: 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. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."