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Re: Reading SCSI DAT in cygwin on Win 2K
- From: Mark Himsley <mark at mdsh dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Sisira Jayasinghe" <sisira at cinci dot rr dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:08:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: Reading SCSI DAT in cygwin on Win 2K
- References: <000f01c20fdf$0078de00$6e00a8c0@athlon1800>
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:56:37 -0400 Sisira Jayasinghe wrote:
>Now when I try to read a tape, I get following message. Can you please let
>me know how do I get it to read the tape.
>
>$ tar -tvf /dev/st0
>tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Permission denied
>tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
My guess is that you didn't set the block size.
Administrator@BEDROOM:/home/Administrator
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0
Administrator@BEDROOM:/home/Administrator
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
Administrator@BEDROOM:/home/Administrator
$ tar -tvf /dev/st0
V--------- 0/0 0 2002-02-22 15:57:44
/cygdrive/w/mylittleisp.net/5eye/ Volume 1--Volume Header--
drwxr-xr-x IUSR_BEDROOM/Administrators 0 2001-09-18 10:57:35
cygdrive/w/mylittleisp.net/5eye/
[SNIP]
Administrator@BEDROOM:/home/Administrator
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
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Mark Himsley
In Acton
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