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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:57:32 -0500
From: Stephen Hansen <hansen AT arlut DOT utexas DOT edu>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: mt on NT
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I did, but I had used backslashes to describe the windows path, which were
interpretted incorrectly.  But I still have a problem.  If I mount exactly
as described and try to rewind I get

TapeGetPos: 6: The handle is invalid.

If I try to setblk I get

mt: operation 'setblk' not support on 'dev/nt0'

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:09:45PM -0500, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > I have installed cygwin on a couple of Win2k machines, and everything
> > works great.  But, I have had a couple of problems installing on NT.
> > The first was man, which I fixed according to instructions in the FAQ
> > (Sometime I would like to know why ash gets loaded sometimes and not
> > others.)  The other problem is with mt.
> >
> > When I try to manipulate the tape with
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nt0 status
> >
> > it responds
> >
> > mt: '(null)' is not a tape device.
> >
> > When I try
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nt0 setblk 0
> >
> > it responds
> >
> > mt: '0' is not a tape device.
> >
> > It's as if mt is looking at the fifth field for the device.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Did you install a mount point as described in the online user guide?
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN786
>
> Corinna
>
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