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: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:53:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Reading tapes from solaris on NT using dd.exe Message-ID: <20010215165309.I13799@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin List References: <3A8BD01E.E4BCC196@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: <3A8BD01E.E4BCC196@sgu.se>; from Johannes.Tyve@sgu.se on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:48:30PM +0100 On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:48:30PM +0100, Johannes Tyve wrote: > > > I'm trying to read some tapes on my NT workstation using cygwin dd.exe. I recieve the error > "Permission denied". > > [...] > The mt command doesn't accept "mt setdesity" or "mt drvbuffer". The > error is "function not implemented". Medium capacity is according to the > manual = 5Gb, uncompressed. And is found as a density using "mt > densities". Is there some other way to use mt? try `mt status 2'. You will get an output containing the current blocksize set by NT. It's likely set to 512 bytes which is unlikely the blocksize used by Solaris. Set the blocksize either to the value of the Solaris tape driver or set it to 0 which enables variable blocksize tape I/O iff the NT tape driver for your drive supports it. `mt status 3' gives loads of output describing the supported features of the tape driver. 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