b20.2 Problem accessing scsi tape drive on WIndows NT SP5.

[Paul Stearns <pauls at compuace dot com>]

Whomever:

I have installed full.exe. The files in the bin directory are data\ed
12/01/98. I have been unable to access an Archive Python 2550-XXX 4mm
DAT drive.

Some information about my configuration;

Windows NT v4.0 SP5
Dual processor Pentium 200
128MB memory
Hard dirves are IDE
Tape controller is Buslogic

I am a novice with the CYGWIN product. I am somewhat unix proficient. I
have read the FAQs and the online documentation.

My end goal is to read tar tapes created on a SCO unix 3.2.4.2.

When I first installed the CYGWIN on this machine and typed the mount
command the only device mounted was C:\ as \. So I decided I needed to
mount
the tape drive. I tried a variety of mount commands. The one I thought
most likely to work was;

mount -b //./tape0 /dev/st0

bash said that /dev/st0 was not a directory. So I tried to create
/dev/st0 using the mkdir commands I was successful in creating /dev, but
it wouldn't work.

I also tried to tar the tape with the "NT?" device name with the
following command;

tar -tvf //./tape0

When doing this I got a permission denied message.

I tried finding any problems in by searching the archives and I
downloaded mt.exe version 1.8. When I try the following;

mt -f \\.\tape0 rewind

mt says mt: '<null>' is no tape device

I have tried everything I know I was hoping someone might be able to
help.

I have inclueded some of the stuff I've tried below.

Paul



bash-2.02$ mount
Device           Directory           Type        Flags
C:               /                   native      text!=binary
bash-2.02$ mount -b //./Tape0 /dev/st0
Warning: /dev/st0 is not a directory!
bash-2.02$ mkdir /dev
bash-2.02$ mkdir /dev/st0
mkdir: cannot make directory `/dev/st0': No such file or directory
bash-2.02$ rmdir /dev
bash-2.02$
bash-2.02$
bash-2.02$
bash-2.02$ tar -tvf //./tape0
tar: Read error on //./tape0: Permission denied
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


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