Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/12/16/08:15:21
On Dec 15 10:36, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > So, as you can see, the Windows NT tape functions doesn't allow me to set
> > the block size to more than 64K, too. That's the same functionality used
> > inside of Cygwin. I have no idea how to workaround that. I also didn't
> > find anything useful on the Web so far.
> >
> > I'd *love* to get that solved, but I don't know how. I'm going to ask
> > someone who's writing tape drivers for Windows, perhaps he has a clue.
> > Other than that, I'm open to any useful hint from the community.
>
> A little googling found the following, but I don't have a tape drive so
> I cannot test it...
> <http://www.complanguages.com/Reading_128K_Blocks_off_a_DLT_via_Adaptec_AHA2940AU-7710081-5505-a.html>
Thanks Brian, that was very interesting. I tried it with my Adaptec U160
but unfortunately nothing changed. I had a quick look into winTar, but,
alas, that's a proprietary application. If there's actually some
problem with the SCSI adapter, then winTar apparently knows how to get
around it. I don't know much about the SCSI low level interface...
Corinna
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