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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: "Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:21:36 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Sean Brown" To: Cc: "Sean Brown" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Nov 2003 19:21:36.0692 (UTC) FILETIME=[30C1B740:01C3A952] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hACJLq5H031440 Problem Description: I have a tape archive on a DDS3 tape created under GNU/Linux 2.2.18. The tape was created with a blocksize of 512 and IS accessible and usable on the linux machine. On the W2K machine using Cygwin, I get the following error when trying to list the contents of the tape: $ tar tvf /dev/st0 tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: No space left on device tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The status of the tape, as reported by mt, is as follows: $ mt -f /dev/st0 status 2 tape capacity : 12569987 KB remaining : 12569987 KB current block : 0 write protected : no datcompression : on min block size : 1 max block size : 65536 def block size : 16384 cur block size : 512 report setmarks : on I have plenty of space on all mounted drive points so I am unsure what this error means. I have checked google and the cygwin mailing archives and have not found any references to this problem. There is a reference to this error on this list about a year ago (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00877.html) but the problem in this case was a bad tape. I have tested three tapes which are readable on the linux machine but get this error on the Cygwin machine. The tapes in question are DDS3 but the drives in both the Linux and W2K machines are DDS4. I have tried setting the blocksize to numerous values (0, 1, 512, 16384) with the same error each time. I would love to be able to get this to work since it will make transferring data between sites and platforms very convenient. I've tried all I can think of so any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sean Brown Director Information Resources Applied Geographics, Inc. Boston, MA 617-292-7125 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/