Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:25:29 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: wjw@IAEhv.nl Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) Message-ID: <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 01:46:08 %2B0200." <199807022346.BAA16546@surf.IAE.nl>
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Willem Jan Withagen writes: > You ( David Kelly ) write: > => For dd its "conv=swab". > => > => To duplicate your tapes use tcopy(1) if you have two tape drives. Tcopy > > Well I can't even dd them of either tape. So I've haven't een gotten into > data incompatibility issues > Julian suggested RTFM 'mt blocksize'. Which I'll as soon as I reboot to > get the tape operational on my FreeBSD box. They were written on 4mm DAT? Not something weird like QIC-100? Saw an HP "development system" which wrote QIC-100 format to DC-6150 tapes, I think. Tapes had to be formatted. Then they mounted like a filesystem. Slower than a tax refund. In the early bad old days of DAT (more correctly known as DSS) there were more problems than there should have been with one tape drive not being able to read tapes from another, all other things the same. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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