Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Accessing a VAX tape drive from a S Message-ID: <6515@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 14 Sep 88 03:48:17 GMT References: <711@auvax.UUCP> <43200035@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <3463@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 19 In article jeremy@chook.ua.oz (Jeremy Webber) writes: >In article <3463@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >> "A standard tape consists of a series of 1024 byte records >> terminated by an end-of-file." > Since most people >prefer to specify their own tape blocking I have never seen anything which uses >cooked tape devices. They are of no use when using utilities such as tar and >dump. but they are useful as file systems. you can create a file system on a tape, mount it read-only, and reference files on it just like any other disk-based file system. you might grow old waiting for your files, but it should work. -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer