Tape support on cygwin

Bruno DELFOSSE bruno.delfosse@fr.airsysatm.thomson-csf.com
Mon Apr 23 00:13:00 GMT 2001


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:48:40PM +0200, Bruno DELFOSSE wrote:
> > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:18:52AM +0200, Bruno DELFOSSE wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I installed cygwin 1.1.8-2 on a Win 2000 SP1 OS, and I wanted to use
> > my
> > >> Archive Python SCSI DAT  tape drive .... but when I tried to mount
> > the
> > >> device as indicated in the user guide (mount //./tape0 /dev/st0) I
> > got
> > >> an error as /dev/st0 does not exist (same thing for nst0). Do I have
> > to
> > >> to something to declare it ? Or did the name change ?
>
> No. Just mount using the -f option:
>
>         mount -s -f -b //./tape0 /dev/st0
>
> Corinna

OK I tried it this week end, it Woooooooooooooooorks !!


Thanks a lot.

Bruno

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