problem accessing tape with tar on NT

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0000, Kris Thielemans wrote:
> I'm trying to access a DAT tape produced on Unix using tar. The tape reads
> fine on another Unix (Solaris) station.
> 
> However Cygwin gives me this
> 
> $ /usr/bin/mt  -f /dev/st0 status
> tape capacity    :  1887232 KB
> current block    :        0             write protected  :       no
> datcompres
> sion   :       on
> 
> $ /usr/bin/tar xvf /dev/st0
> /usr/bin/tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Permission denied
> /usr/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
> /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> What's wrong?

The blocksize.  Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/mt.README.

Corinna

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