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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:49:37 +0000
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: new tape problems
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On Thursday 7 Dec 00, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> 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.

I've added this to the 'known problems' section of the FAQ, with a
link to this message.

Thanks for the description of the problem.

David


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