"Sean Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Problem Description: I have a tape archive on a DDS3 tape >created under GNU/Linux 2.2.18. The tape was created with a >blocksize of 512 and IS accessible and usable on the linux >machine. On the W2K machine using Cygwin, I get the following >error when trying to list the contents of the tape: > >$ tar tvf /dev/st0 >tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: No space left on device >tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now >tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
This is just a guess, but: Does the reading tape drive support the density you used when the tape was written? I remember seeing strange error messages when I had written a tape with density 35 and tried to read it with an older tape drive which only supported densities up to 20. Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
