Re: mt on NT

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:09:45PM -0500, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> I have installed cygwin on a couple of Win2k machines, and everything
> works great.  But, I have had a couple of problems installing on NT.
> The first was man, which I fixed according to instructions in the FAQ
> (Sometime I would like to know why ash gets loaded sometimes and not
> others.)  The other problem is with mt.
> 
> When I try to manipulate the tape with
> 
> mt -f /dev/nt0 status
> 
> it responds
> 
> mt: '(null)' is not a tape device.
> 
> When I try
> 
> mt -f /dev/nt0 setblk 0
> 
> it responds
> 
> mt: '0' is not a tape device.
> 
> It's as if mt is looking at the fifth field for the device.
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you install a mount point as described in the online user guide?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN786

Corinna

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