mt setdensity not working?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 23 11:02:00 GMT 2004


On Jul 22 23:10, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> cygwin tape support is awesome. I just would like to change the
> DLT IV density on my TZ88 drive which is inside a changer, so
> I can't get to the buttons. When I do
> 
> mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x41
> 
> I get "invalid argument" and same result no matter what argument
> I choose.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is this known not to work?

setdensity isn't supported.  The problem is that I don't know any Win32
API to set the density.  Any hint welcome.


Corinna

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