Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So, as you can see, the Windows NT tape functions doesn't allow me to set > the block size to more than 64K, too. That's the same functionality used > inside of Cygwin. I have no idea how to workaround that. I also didn't > find anything useful on the Web so far. > > I'd *love* to get that solved, but I don't know how. I'm going to ask > someone who's writing tape drivers for Windows, perhaps he has a clue. > Other than that, I'm open to any useful hint from the community.
A little googling found the following, but I don't have a tape drive so I cannot test it... <http://www.complanguages.com/Reading_128K_Blocks_off_a_DLT_via_Adaptec_AHA2940AU-7710081-5505-a.html> Brian -- 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/
