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Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:27:25 +0100
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Tim Scoggins schrieb:
> 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
Hi,

how do you have create the node /dev/nst1?
Under my cygwin there is no dev directory installed?

Could you please help?

MfG...
Pierre Bernhardt



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