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: <001f01c0aaeb$2d27e680$1700a8c0@trillke> From: "Dirk Engelmann" To: Subject: How do I access a SCSI-DAT drive? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:54:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Disposition-Notification-To: "Dirk Engelmann" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Hello, i want to do restore backups that were made on a Linux Machine using tar. Since I don't want to install Linux on that particular machine, I wanted to try cygwin. Now, how do I access a standard SCSI tape drive under cygwin? Since there is no /dev/ directory, there is no /dev/st[0-7] or /dev/mt[0-7]. Any Ideas? Should I ever want to do backups from a Linux fileserver running samba, would it be possible with cygwin tar? I mean: Can I do the vice-versa operation, store data with a cygwin TAR command and retrieve them later with a linux box? Thank You for any help(and pls. apologize my broken english) Dirk -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple