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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:47:25 -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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No, I can't tar or dd either.

Could my problem have something to do with my tape drive being on a second SCSI
controller?

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:30:32PM -0500, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > $ mt -f /dev/nt0 status 2 (and 3)
> > TapeStatus: 6: The handle is invalid
> > mt: Error reporting tape status
>
> Hmm, weird. I have no idea. The thing is, it could open "\\.\tape0'
> so the handle should be ok. I even tried renaming my tape drive to
> /dev/[n]t0 either for testing. I have no problems.
>
> Could you compile a debug version of mt and debug it?
>
> Oh, btw, did you succeed in reading or writing on the tape using
> Cygwin tar/cpio/dd/something?
>
> Did you use the same user account when creating the mount point
> and when calling mt? If you're using a ssh/rsh/telnet session
> to connect to the box, do you see the mount points for the tapes
> there, too?
>
> Corinna
>
> >
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:35:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:24:31AM -0500, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > > > > I have to type the output because I'm working on a secure system.  Here it is:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ mount
> > > > > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > > > > C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> > > > > C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> > > > > \\.\tape0 on /dev/t0 type user (binmode)
> > > > > \\.\tape0 on /dev/nt0 type user (binmode)
> > > > > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > f: on /cygdrive/f type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > i: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > j: on /cygdrive/j type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > > l: on /cygdrive/l type user (binmode, noumount)
> > > > >
> > > > > Adminisrator AT TRC-EVAN NT ~
> > > > > $ mt status 2
> > > > > mt: '2' is no tape device
> > > >
> > > > mt -f /dev/nt0 status 2?
> > >
> > > or better
> > >
> > >   mt -f /dev/nt0 status 3
>
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