* sreangsu acharyya [linux-india] <18/04/01 10:10 +0530>:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, K L Bhavani wrote:
> > mount: /dev/tape is not a block device
> it should be a char special one, cause the data acces on a tape is pretty
> much serial in nature. So mounting is off i guess, cat should work
Or dd if=[whatever] of=/dev/st0 bs=[???] <- what's the block size normally,
4 kb?
-s
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