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Re: mt returns no status of hp c1537a


On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:52:04PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Stefani wrote:
> hi
> 
> last week i've made my first steps with cygwin mt and tried it on
> an hp c1559a dds-2 drive which worked just fine with status and all.
> 
> today i've replaced this drive by an hp c1573a dds-3.
> 
> mt still seems able to access the drive, since
> 
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
> 
> ejects the media, however
> 
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> 
> only gives
> 
> mt: /dev/nst0: Invalid argument

Weird.  Can you still access the old drive?  Does it still work there?
Does the behaviour perhaps change depending of whether a tape is in
the drive or not?

> as result. Same thing for /dev/nst0 and \\\\.\\tape0.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
					  Don't use that in Cygwin.

> (I'm using the latest (updated jul. 07.) version of cygwin (and mt) on
> win xp.)

Ditto, are you sure running Cygwin 1.3.12-2 and mt 2.0.1-1?

Corinna

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