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, 12 Jul 2001 23:23:21 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mt on NT Message-ID: <20010712232321.T30469@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3B4DF5F9.832E67D9@arlut.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4DF5F9.832E67D9@arlut.utexas.edu>; from hansen@arlut.utexas.edu on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:09:45PM -0500 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:09:45PM -0500, Stephen Hansen wrote: > I have installed cygwin on a couple of Win2k machines, and everything > works great. But, I have had a couple of problems installing on NT. > The first was man, which I fixed according to instructions in the FAQ > (Sometime I would like to know why ash gets loaded sometimes and not > others.) The other problem is with mt. > > When I try to manipulate the tape with > > mt -f /dev/nt0 status > > it responds > > mt: '(null)' is not a tape device. > > When I try > > mt -f /dev/nt0 setblk 0 > > it responds > > mt: '0' is not a tape device. > > It's as if mt is looking at the fifth field for the device. > > Any ideas? Did you install a mount point as described in the online user guide? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN786 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/