On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:28:00AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Use /dev/rst0. /dev/st0 is a block device. I don't know why MAKEDEV
> > makes this, delete it.
> > 
> You _can_ actually use the block device, I use it sometimes. If you have
> a real tape station (not a streaming one) then it should be possible to
> mount it as a file system. I tried this ~6 years ago, and after some
> tweaking of the kernel it worked :-)

do you recall what filesystem did you use, and what tweaks were
necessary?

this sounds like a crazy experiment.

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