How do I access a SCSI-DAT drive?

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 12 06:55:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:54:21PM +0100, Dirk Engelmann wrote:
> Hello,
> i want to do restore backups that were made on a Linux Machine using tar.
> Since I don't want to install Linux on that particular machine, I wanted to
> try cygwin.
> Now, how do I access a standard SCSI tape drive under cygwin?
> Since there is no /dev/ directory, there is no /dev/st[0-7] or /dev/mt[0-7].
> Any Ideas?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN769

Corinna

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