reading from tape device on windows 2000

[hs]

sorry for answering by myself, the problem is solved without using cat
but instead using tar to unpack tar archive directly from /dev/st0



On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:51:14 +0200, hs <hubeert@poczta.fm> wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I am having problems while reading from dds tape device.
> I use the same procedure that works on knoppix linux live distro.
>
> I am setting block size
> mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 10240
> and then try to read from the device with cat
> cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar
> and I get a message like
> cat: /dev/nst0: Bad address
>
> I have mt V2.3, Corinna Vinschen, Apr 19 2004
> latest cygwin
>
> Any ideas what is wrong with it ?
>



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