From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: SCSI devices? 4 Feb 1998 06:00:19 -0800 Message-ID: <19980204133743.3689.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: wolkove AT biz-link DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com According to what I've seen and read, you will need to modify the cpio to use the api calls of the device driver (or write the device driver yourself) for the tape drive. This is somehow related to the "protected mode" of win32. That is all I know. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) >Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 20:13:20 -0700 >From: Jeff Wolkove >To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" >Subject: SCSI devices? > >I couldn't find an answer on this in the archives, and >I posted once before and never had any replies, but I'll >try again. > >I have compiled a version of cpio with gnuwin32 and it >does not access my SCSI tape drive. Does anyone know what >settings may be required in order to access a SCSI tape >drive with cpio under Win95? > >Thanks >Jeff Wolkove >- >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". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".