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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:18:57 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711201209040.780@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C029A57F-77C4-4ED3-80E7-880EE62CDE9C@ronnatalie.com>

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On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote:

[ Tape as a mountable file-system ]

>> So you mount it read-only...
>
> Still won’t work.    Seek doesn’t work right.

I don't feel like arguing this, but it most certainly did for me, thank 
you very much (I'm desperately trying to be polite here); a modified tape 
driver, perhaps?  It was quite amusing watching it thrash back and forth, 
until I put it out of its misery.

I think I even mentioned it once, in an issue of AUUGN; all I remember now 
was that the tape had 512-byte blocks, just like the RK-05 from which it 
was presumably DD'd (I wasn't silly enough to try a MKFS).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20  1:18 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
2017-11-19 23:41           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20  1:02             ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-20  1:18               ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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