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 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:47:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Reading tapes from solaris on NT using dd.exe Message-ID: <20010214144733.F17568@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <000a01c09688$734dc890$7d14010a@sgu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000a01c09688$734dc890$7d14010a@sgu.se>; from johannes.tyve@sgu.se on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:17:15PM +0100 On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:17:15PM +0100, Johannes Tyve wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to read some tapes on my NT workstation using cygwin dd.exe. I recieve the error "Permission denied". You haven't installed the tape mount point. http://cygwin.com/docs.html > It is possible to take a blank tape and write/read to it using tar och dd but if I try to use a tape that is written on a Solaris workstation. I use the same tape device on both workstations (EXB8500 with hardware compression). The tape is written to /dev/rmt/0mbn (medium capacity) on the Solaris workstation. Maybe I need to configure cygwin to use medium capacity, but how do I do that? Use Cygwin's mt. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple