Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

[cyril bonnard]

So here we are again ;-)

the output:
Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
$ strace -o d:/stracemt mt -f /dev/st0 status
mt: /dev/st0: Invalid request code


Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
$ strace -o d:/stracetar tar -cvf /dev/st0 d:/importPy
d:/importPy/
d:/importPy/a.py
d:/importPy/a.pyc
d:/importPy/a.py~
d:/importPy/b.py
d:/importPy/b.py~
d:/importPy/Copie de a.py
d:/importPy/Copie de a.pyc
d:/importPy/Copie de a.py~
d:/importPy/Copie de b.py
d:/importPy/Copie de b.py~
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Don't be sorry i should have see the mistake.

Cyril

>From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar
>Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:10:15 +0200
>
>On Aug 23 08:03, cyril bonnard wrote:
> > hello, here is the new stuff: the traces of tar and mt bzip2ed, and here
> > the output:
> >
> > Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> > $ strace -o d:/strace mt -f /dev/st0 status
> > mt: /dev/st0: Bad address
> >
> > Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> > $ strace -o d:/stracetar tar -cvf /dev/st0
> > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Bad address
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >
> > I think the message given ( "Bad address") may help!?
>
>Uuuuurgh!  Sorry, sorry, sorry.  I gave you the wrong URL to the DLL you
>should install.  Of course it's *not* the one from 20050819, it's the
>latest one from yesterday.  Please retry using this one from tonight:
>
>   http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20050823.dll.bz2
>
>(Did I get the URL right this time?  Yes, it seems so.)
>
>If you're using this one, you should not get a "Bad address", at least
>I hope so.
>
>
>Sorry again,
>Corinna
>
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