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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 14:06:52 +0100
From: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: REALLY need help prior to 1.3.4 release
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Don Sharp wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:

...snip...

> >> I'm still not hearing from any volunteers with tape drives.  That's
> >> rather disappointing since I know that the whinging will start within
> >> hours after I release 1.3.4, if this is actually broken.
> >
> >Sorry Chris, it's no go. Result of my session with the
> >cygwin1-20011005.dll snapshot is appended. "datasave" is a shell script
> >tarring a number of partitions in separate sections onto the tape. I
> >tried tarring /tmp directly to show that it wasn't my script causing the
> >failure. I am also adding the strace output for the last command.
> >
> >All cygwin up to date in case you are wondering.
> 
> Thank you, Don!  This was exactly what I needed.  Your strace helped me get
> to the cause of the problem.  I hope that this will be fixed in the next
> snapshot.  I'm updating the snapshot as I type.
> 

Retrying with the updated snapshot.

don AT DON ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 DON 1.3.4s(0.46/3/2) 20011005 22:54:30 i686 unknown

don AT DON ~
$ cd /tmp

don AT DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
tape capacity    :  1624541 KB          remaining        :  1624541 KB
current block    :        0             write protected  :      
no             datcompression   :       on

don AT DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

don AT DON /tmp
$ tar cf /dev/nst0 .

don AT DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 tell  
At block 1248.

don AT DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
tape capacity    :  1624541 KB          remaining        :  1614142 KB
current block    :     1248             write protected  :      
no             datcompression   :       on

don AT DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl

don AT DON /tmp
$ 

Seems to have done it for me too. Tape reads back OK.
Glad to be able to help on this occasion. 

Cheers

Don Sharp

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