Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39F558D1.4937A07A@dddandr.octacon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:39:29 +0100 From: Don Sharp Reply-To: dwsharp@iee.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnuwin32 Subject: Re: tar question References: <39F55191.5922AADC@NOSPAM-der.edf.fr-NOSPAM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com