On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:39:24PM -0400, Brian Topping wrote:
> I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing? Drive is DDS3,
> cygwin was just installed from net today:
>
> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0
You don't have to do this. The names /dev/stX and /dev/nstX are
reserved for tapes anyway.
> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> No media
> datcompression : on
> min block size : 1 max block size : 65536
> def block size : 16384
> report setmarks : on
>
> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> tape capacity : 0 KB remaining : 0 KB
^^^^^ ^^^^^
That looks weird. The drive or the NT tape
driver didn't recognize the tape correctly,
otherwise you'd see valid values here.
> Thanks for your consideration of my plight! I'm trying to recover a website
> for a friend, they are down until I can get this tape opened.
I don't believe it's a Cygwin problem. Did you try other tapes already
or is that your first try?
Corinna
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