Why can't I access my SCSI DAT drive with tar under NT?

[John Cooper]

> > OK, I've ftpd the latest bugview, but still no luck:
> > 
> > $ umount /dev/st0
> > $ mount -b \\\\.\\tape0 /dev/st0
> > $ mount
>  
> You forgot a colon... "\\\\.\\tape0:".
>  

So I did - still doesn't work though

$ mount -b \\\\.\\tape0: /dev/st0
$ mount
Device           Directory           Type        Flags
d:\temp          /tmp                native      no-mixed,text!=binary
q:               /q                  native      no-mixed,text!=binary
d:\jobs\plato    /p                  native      no-mixed,text!=binary
c:\etc           /etc                native      no-mixed,text!=binary
\\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      no-mixed,text=binary
\\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
\\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
q:\gpmcyg32\cygwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin /bin                native      no-mixed,text!=binary
c:               /                   native      no-mixed,text!=binary
$ tar -tvf /dev/st0
tar: Cannot open /dev/st0: No such file or directory
$
-- 
John Cooper (JPSC Ltd, UK)

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