Re: tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-15 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Dave Korn schrieb: > On 15 December 2006 12:27, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > > >> how do you have create the node /dev/nst1? >> Under my cygwin there is no dev directory installed? > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4729541 Thank you. MfG... Pierre Bernhardt -- Unsubsc

RE: tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 December 2006 12:27, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > how do you have create the node /dev/nst1? > Under my cygwin there is no dev directory installed? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4729541 cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Uns

Re: tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-15 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Tim Scoggins schrieb: > I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin > under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize > to 0 > > mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 > > No errors. I can status the tape. > > But when I try to extract > > tar xvf /dev/n

Re: tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 17:18, Tim Scoggins wrote: > I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin > under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize > to 0 > > mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 > > No errors. I can status the tape. > > But when I try to extract >

tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Scoggins
I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize to 0 mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 No errors. I can status the tape. But when I try to extract tar xvf /dev/nst1 I get tar: Cannot read: Invalid a