Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/09/08:21:02
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:52:04PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Stefani wrote:
> hi
>
> last week i've made my first steps with cygwin mt and tried it on
> an hp c1559a dds-2 drive which worked just fine with status and all.
>
> today i've replaced this drive by an hp c1573a dds-3.
>
> mt still seems able to access the drive, since
>
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
>
> ejects the media, however
>
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
>
> only gives
>
> mt: /dev/nst0: Invalid argument
Weird. Can you still access the old drive? Does it still work there?
Does the behaviour perhaps change depending of whether a tape is in
the drive or not?
> as result. Same thing for /dev/nst0 and \\\\.\\tape0.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't use that in Cygwin.
> (I'm using the latest (updated jul. 07.) version of cygwin (and mt) on
> win xp.)
Ditto, are you sure running Cygwin 1.3.12-2 and mt 2.0.1-1?
Corinna
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