From: sven AT brem DOT de (Sven Brueggemann) Subject: Re: Tape & Floppy 22 Nov 1997 05:26:42 -0800 Message-ID: References: <6iAT0bA$pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de wrote: MH> >I would really like to use tar or cpio on tapes and disks as I use to MH> >do with Unix and OS/2. MH> MH> I suppose you mean *raw* floppy access? Yes, indeed. MH> If so, just get Sergey's newest coolview version of cygwin.dll and raw MH> floppy access works perfectly. IHMO only on NT - or how do I create/mount the appropriate devices? MH> Tape access is supposed to work, too, but it does not work for me at MH> the moment. Would be *really* great to create backups with tar or cpio MH> to my DAT streamer. That's exactly what I would like to do - unfortunately my C is even worse than my English. Unfortunately, Win95 has no standard tape routines so the only reasonable way to access tapes is via ASPI (that's the way Andreas Kaiser implemented his famous GTAK (tape access for GNU-Tools based on EMX) under OS/2). If you do so, you would achieve raw access to any SCSI Devices (Tapes, PDs, MOs,...). regards - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".