Re: A possibly foolish technical question...

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>> > True, I was assuming that you'd to be wanting access to a DOS floppy.  
>> Maybe, but not nessesarily. As I said in my original message, this seems to be
>> true of other things, like ZIP drives. I also think it's true of some tapes.
>
>Hummmm, I've made bootable tapes, I've even partitioned DAT tapes,
>but I've never seen anything that even mentioned mounting a tape.
>
>If you come across anything that talks about mounting tapes, please send 
>it (or the URL) my way.  I'd be interested in talking a look.  Thanks!
In my wandering through tape and backupland, I've seen device access issues and
building filesystems on tapes (instead of archives). For all I know, there's a
welter of other devices [how many devices in a "welter"? sorry :)] that are 
treated the same way... and the last time I looked, the number of devices 
wasn't getting any smaller!
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