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Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives


On 8/19/2013 12:40 PM, bartels wrote:
On 08/19/2013 06:31 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:

First of all, it's not clear to me whether it is a Microsoft problem
or a device driver problem.  I would see what's known about the behavior
of the devices and their drivers with the specific Windows version you
have.  Of course it could be that other tools don't need to ask those
same questions, for some reason, so that they end up working fine ..

Good thinking.

Running W7 64 professional.

It detects the HP drive and automatically installs some driver.
This driver shows the same behaviour as the HP driver.

And then there is the IBM driver. Not sure if W7 installs a default driver for that.
Same story.

What does that tell you?

Not so much, yet.  Presumably HP and IBM offer some kind of backup
utility with the drive software, that you can use to see whether the
drive can accept more that so many Gbytes to write.  Or you could use
whatever simple backup utility comes with Windows to test.  The question
is whether *Windows* based software (not necessarily from Microsoft)
can write more to the drive than mt manages to.  That might be a useful
clue.  However, if other software *can* write more to the drive, the
question remains "How do they do it?" given the apparent OS behavior.

If there are two or three different drivers possible (Windows default,
HP, IBM), it might be interesting to see if the information returned
to cygwin from the Windows OS is the same for each driver ...

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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