Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:38:23 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K Message-ID: <20020918103823.W29920@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <60F6EF824F0C284481CEF5F49D2F54030766A8 AT centrum DOT digidemic DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <60F6EF824F0C284481CEF5F49D2F54030766A8@centrum.digidemic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:39:24PM -0400, Brian Topping wrote: > I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing? Drive is DDS3, > cygwin was just installed from net today: > > Administrator AT BRIAN ~ > $ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0 You don't have to do this. The names /dev/stX and /dev/nstX are reserved for tapes anyway. > Administrator AT BRIAN ~ > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status > No media > datcompression : on > min block size : 1 max block size : 65536 > def block size : 16384 > report setmarks : on > > Administrator AT BRIAN ~ > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status > tape capacity : 0 KB remaining : 0 KB ^^^^^ ^^^^^ That looks weird. The drive or the NT tape driver didn't recognize the tape correctly, otherwise you'd see valid values here. > Thanks for your consideration of my plight! I'm trying to recover a website > for a friend, they are down until I can get this tape opened. I don't believe it's a Cygwin problem. Did you try other tapes already or is that your first try? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/