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From: garyb@hpmwtla.HP.COM (Gary Bringhurst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Anyone know how to make A/UX recognize tape drive?
Message-ID: <2270007@hpmwtla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 88 00:33:27 GMT
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Organization: HP MicroWave Technology - Santa Rosa,CA
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>You can't 'mount' a tape drive under Unix, mount only works for block
>devices like disk drives.

HP-UX (Hewlett-Packard's port of Unix) allows you to mount a cartridge tape
drive as a block device, although it beats on the tape pretty hard if you do
it very often.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Gary L. Bringhurst