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Date:	Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:39:29 +0100
From:	Don Sharp <Don DOT Sharp AT dddandr DOT octacon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: tar question
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I have it working fine on my NT system.
Remember to mount the NT tape path to /dev/your_choice_of_tape_name
You need separate mounts of the same NT device for rewind on open and no
rewind on open.
I have found that when creating a tape archive I have to issue an
"mt -f /dev/my_choice_of_tape_name status"
to ensure that QIC drives are initialised properly.

Hope that helps

Don Sharp

jean-hugues zorio wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I understand there's a port of tar in the 'latest' package.
> 
> Does this tar 'know' how to access tape drives (DAT actually) on the
> SCSI bus (as /dev/rmt/... does not exist on the NT machine) ?
> 
> If yes what's the syntax (the FAQ refers to the general tar doc. on the
> GNU site, which doesn't
> specify anything for non-Unix systems).
> 
> If not, is there a tar available somewhere that will access a SCSI
> DAT drive directly.
> 
> Free ?
> 
> Commercial ?
> 
> Thanks for any pointer.
> 
> Jean-Hugues Zorio
> 
> P.S. A few years ago, I had a DOS port of GNU-tar that used ASPI to
> access SCSI tapes. One can hope things have only become better since...
> 
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