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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:19:01 +0100
From: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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To: Wim Versteeg <willem DOT versteeg AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: Acces tape-unit with cygwin
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Wim Versteeg wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I installed CYGWIN on my PC under winNT without tape-unit. Today I connected a
> tape-unit via SCSI to my PC . The winNT backup system detects my drive. Could
> you inform me how to use/install this tape-unit under CYGWIN (by dd if=TAPE or
> tar....) This tar-option would be interesting for me!
> 

You need to mount the tape decice(s) like

mount -f -s -b "//./tape0" "/dev/st0"
mount -f -s -b "//./tape0" "/dev/nst0"

Notice the norewind version above

You can now use

dd if=/dev/st0 bs=tape_block_size > file_on_disc
tar tf /dev/st0

and

mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1

I hope that helps.

> Regards, Wim Versteeg
> 
>   
Cheers

Don Sharp

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