Re: Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:39:24PM -0400, Brian Topping wrote:
> I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing?  Drive is DDS3,
> cygwin was just installed from net today:
> 
> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0

You don't have to do this.  The names /dev/stX and /dev/nstX are
reserved for tapes anyway.

> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> No media
> datcompression   :       on
> min block size   :        1             max block size   :    65536
> def block size   :    16384
> report setmarks  :       on
> 
> Administrator@BRIAN ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> tape capacity    :        0 KB          remaining        :        0 KB
                        ^^^^^                                   ^^^^^
                        That looks weird.  The drive or the NT tape
                        driver didn't recognize the tape correctly,
                        otherwise you'd see valid values here.

> Thanks for your consideration of my plight!  I'm trying to recover a website
> for a friend, they are down until I can get this tape opened.

I don't believe it's a Cygwin problem.  Did you try other tapes already
or is that your first try?

Corinna

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