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From: speck@cit-vlsi.arpa (Don Speck)
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Subject: Re: seek on raw magtape
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 11:38:16 EST
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    A year ago I had to bring up 4.2bsd on two vaxen whose only
removable media were RL02's.  My only way of writing an RL02 was
tape-to-disk copy on a VMS machine.  So, I dd'd an appropriate
filesystem to a tape, and for paranoia, fsck'd the tape.  Slow,
yes, but not much worse than the VMS machine was at copying to
the RL02.

    When I tried to mount the tape as a filesystem, /etc/mount
refused, and then hung the tape drive - I got ENXIO on the next
open (probably the kernel forgot to close the device).

		Don Speck	speck@cit-{vax,vlsi}.arpa