Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!sgi!markb@denali
From: markb@denali
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mounting Tape Drives as filesystems
Keywords: Need a block device
Message-ID: <22583@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 21:50:17 GMT
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Tried mounting a tape drive per the man page.  In direct contradiction
to my last posting, the tape drive is a character device and this won't
work.  One must have a block device to mount a fs.  Sorry for the mis-
information.

					markb

Mark Bradley				"Faster, faster, until the thrill of
IO Subsystems				 speed overcomes the fear of death."
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Mountain View, CA			     ---Hunter S. Thompson