From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: Tape drive 22 Feb 1998 12:56:58 -0800 Message-ID: <6oM9y8sppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <199802190302 DOT TAA27509 AT Sutmyn DOT Com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, >Hi >I am trying to use my hp dat drive with gnu-win32 in order to read tar files. >How are devices addressed in this case ? >if I do a dd if=? of=/mydir/tarfile what is the name of the device? >Thank you for guiding the clueless... :) It should be \\.\Tape:, where x=0 is the first tape, x=1 the second, and so on. These are mounted to /dev/. $ mount ... \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native no-mixed,text=binary \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native no-mixed,text=binary ... Unfortunately it doesn't work with the current release. I don't know why. >Jean-Pierre Sainfeld Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - 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".