From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 19:48:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA04171 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA04166 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA24293; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:17:53 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971104141753.14409@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:17:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gopu@global.com Subject: Re: Help in data recovery References: <19971103074838.HP19395@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199711040242.TAA15381@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199711040242.TAA15381@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Nov 04, 1997 at 02:42:57AM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Nov 04, 1997 at 02:42:57AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Surely Julian didn't want you to run fdisk on a tape drive. :-) So >> just type `fdisk', and it will pick up the first disk for you. > > If the manufacturer didn't want me to put a filesystem on a device, > then they'd make it so the device wasn't block addressable. Otherwise > it gets an FS... > > mount -t ansitape /dev/rst0 /mnt You miss the point. mount -t ansitape /dev/st0 /mnt Greg