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Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:15:16 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: tar exabyte 8500 under xp |
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On Dec 13 17:18, Tim Scoggins wrote: > I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin > under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize > to 0 > > mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 > > No errors. I can status the tape. > > But when I try to extract > > tar xvf /dev/nst1 > > I get > > tar: Cannot read: Invalid argument > tar: At beginning of tape; quitting now > tar: Error is not recoverable; exiting now > > (XP found the driver automatically for the drive.) Search the archives. The tape has probably a blocksize of > 64K which is not handled gracefully by Windows, unless you tweak the settings of your SCSI adaptor. And even then it doesn't work sometimes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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