Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: "Mack, Daemian" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: No /dev Files for Tape Backup to Use? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:08:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I've installed Cygwin on NT4 in order to use tar to do some backups. I've got a 15/30 Gb DLT tape drive hooked up to the machine. My understanding is that tar will need to refer to the tape device -- yet there is no /dev directory. Is this common? Is there some other step I need to take to generate the proper /dev files for my tape drive, etc? Please advise. Daemian Mack -- 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/