Re: formatting tapes

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://www.tiac.net/~testlab (testlab)
 > Date: Sun  Oct 27,  8:24pm
 >
 > Glub, Glub we're doing fine so far.  We've been in DC so we haven't thought
 > about the floods.  just enjoying the Ethopian, Indian, Thai, and mexican
 > foods in DC.  went to see the Vietnam Wall, the Korean wall, and the
 > Holocaust museum.  very depressing.  Then we went to the Air and Space
 > museum - incredible!  And the DC zoo - that was great.  Walked many miles.
 > But we're back home now and exhausted.  
 >
 > Do you need more than 16 meg which is in the computer I sent you?  On that
 > computer, go into DOS, make directory BACK, copy the diskette I sent you in,
 > put the tape dirve in place of the second diskette ( be sure you set the
 > second diskette as a 1.2 meg) and run QS3 and format the tapes.  Then put
 > every thing back in the Linux compouter and run FTAPE.  The computer is a
 > 5X86 133 MHz not a Pentium.

Oh, okay.  I don't know if it's worth doing at this point because it was very
difficult trying to get that tape drive into that computer -- I was lucky that
I didn't snap something because the cable just refused to go in.  I don't
wanna go through that again...

I think the solution is going to have to be to repartition my hard-drive.  I'll
do this by creating a new partition and formatting a new file system in the
last part of my drive, copying all the data from the first [Linux] partition,
and creating two new small partitions where the first [Linux] partition now
is -- one DOS and the other Linux.

Don't know when I'll get to this, though.