mkfs /dev/floppy-tape ; mount /dev/floppy-tape /mnt
Lenny Tropiano
lenny at icus.ICUS.COM
Mon Jun 3 05:15:55 AEST 1991
In article <1991May29.165557.5351 at uublip.uucp> blip at uublip.uucp (Brant Pellett) writes:
|>I have an AT&T 3b1 running 3.51m with in internal 320K FD and an external
|>floppy tape (looks like streamer, but it's not...)
|>
|>I'm trying to format my FLOPPY TAPE so I can mount it as a (dreadfully slow)
|>second drive. Is this fultile? Has anyone ever done it? How slow does it
|>get?
|>
[...]
The one thing that is missing is the block-device necessary for a mounted
filesystem. This tp.o device driver does not support this. Even if it did,
it's very slow. The same tape drive on 3B2/400 formats a tape in 20 minutes,
makes a filesystem on tape device in 2 hours, and accessing the drive is
very slow. I guess having a 23mb filesystem on occasion would be useful, but
it CANNOT be done on a 3B1 as the device driver was written.
-Lenny
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