Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3A2F7405.355E2EBF@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:27:01 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: new tape problems References: <3A2F6B32 DOT 2B0542A6 AT epost DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id GAA25917 Bernd Rosauer wrote: > Hi! > > I installed Cygwin B20.1 on a Windows 98 machine connected to a SCSI box This has nothing to do with your question but why don't you install the current version of Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com? > [...] > But "mt -f /dev/rst1 offline" complains: > > TapePrepare: 1: Unzulässige Funktion (German for "invalid function") > mt: Error setting tape offline > > And "tar -tf /dev/rst1" complains after some sort of timeout: > > tar: Cannot open /dev/rst1: No such file or directory > tar: Error is recoverable: exiting now > [...] > What is wrong with my setup? Any help would be greatly appreciated! There's nothing wrong with your setup. The problem is that 9X doesn't support the Win32 tape backup API which is used by Cygwin to access the tape devices. AFAIK, tapes under 9x are only accessible via direct calls to the driver. I would gladly appreciate if somebody provides a general solution for 9x to incorporate into the fhandler_dev_tape class. Up to then, you can't access tapes with Cygwin under 9x. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen AT redhat DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com