Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

[Jeffrey C. Smith]

I'm trying to use tar from Cygwin 1.7 Beta on a Win 2008 R2 machine to 
backup some files to a Quantum LTO 4 SAS tape drive. I've tried all the 
usual POSIX paths (/dev/nst0, /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc.) as well as some 
other variants (\\.\tape0) with no joy. tar fails with a "No such file 
or directory" error.

I'm not sure how to find out details on the actual Win device paths. The 
best tool that I've been able to find is devcon which list the tape 
drive as follows:

SCSI\SEQUENTIAL&VEN_QUANTUM&PROD_ULTRIUM_4\6&369B1AD2&0&000000
     Name: Quantum LTO 4 Tape Drive
     Hardware ID's:
         SCSI\SequentialQUANTUM_ULTRIUM_4_______2190
         SCSI\SequentialQUANTUM_ULTRIUM_4_______
         SCSI\SequentialQUANTUM_
         SCSI\QUANTUM_ULTRIUM_4_______2
         QUANTUM_ULTRIUM_4_______2
     Compatible ID's:
         SCSI\Sequential
         SCSI\RAW

Is there any way to access this device using tar from cygwin? Can I 
specify Windows device paths with 1.7? If so, how would I identify the 
path to the device?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff
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