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: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:53:43 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: tape under 1.1.8 Message-ID: <20010609095343.A28926@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <578174684.20010608230913@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <578174684.20010608230913@earthlink.net>; from scowles@earthlink.net on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:09:13PM -0700 On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:09:13PM -0700, S. Cowles wrote: > I am having trouble with tape mounts under Cygwin 1.3.2-1. In the > past, I've had no problems with 1.1.8, etc. The output of cygcheck is > included in this message. The error message I get is: > > 22:58:10 [529] vcv:bioinfogen/harold% dd if=/dev/rmt ibs=10k of=gigo > dd: /dev/rmt: Permission denied 0+0 records in 0+0 records out The block size set in the tape driver is different from the block size on the tape. Either you know the block size of the tape and set your driver accordingly: mt -f /dev/rmt setblk 5120 or you set your driver to "variable blocksize" which allows to read all tapes the drive is capable of: mt -f /dev/rmt setblk 0 If you want to know the current setting of your driver, call mt -f /dev/rmt status 2 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