From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:18:57 +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> <1CE2C7FC-1FAE-44F7-8DDA-B21D54FA0E43@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: 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."