On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0000, Kris Thielemans wrote: > I'm trying to access a DAT tape produced on Unix using tar. The tape reads > fine on another Unix (Solaris) station. > > However Cygwin gives me this > > $ /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/st0 status > tape capacity : 1887232 KB > current block : 0 write protected : no > datcompres > sion : on > > $ /usr/bin/tar xvf /dev/st0 > /usr/bin/tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Permission denied > /usr/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > What's wrong?
The blocksize. Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/mt.README. 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/
