On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:43:02PM +0100, Manfred Drechsel wrote: > hi chris, > > first, many thanks for cygwin. i could not survive > without it. > > sorry to send you a mail directly. > > am i doing something wrong or why does tar not > work on my dat-tape? > > here's more info: > > ---------------------------------------- > # mount > ... > \\.\tape0 on /dev/st0 type system (binmode)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That mount point is unnecessary since 1.3.3, see Users Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN590 > # > # mt -f /dev/tape rewind ^^^^^^^^^^^^ unnecessary since /dev/tape is the default device name for mt version >= 2.0. > # tar -tf /dev/tape > tar: /dev/tape: Cannot read: Permission denied > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Probably wrong blocksize. See if the blocksize is set correctly: $ mt status 2 tape capacity : 1953251 KB remaining : 1953251 KB current block : 0 write protected : no datcompression : on min block size : 1 max block size : 65536 def block size : 16384 cur block size : 512 report setmarks : on Then try using the correct fixed blocksize if you know it: mt selblk 5120 Or variable blocksize for reading if you don't know the blocksize used for writing the tape: mt setblk 0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
