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From: Marc Schare <marc9 AT aol DOT com>
Subject: cygwin and scsi tape drive.
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:48:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Dear List:  
 
I've been trying to get my SCSI tape drive to work under Windows/XP Home 
Edition and CYGWIN and having absolutely no luck. My tape drive is recognized 
as an "other device" so Windows is clearly aware of it. I have CYGWIN Version 
1.5.10.3 (which should be the latest) and MT package Version 2.3. 
 
When I do a mount command, I get: 
 
bash: /etc/profile: line 185: syntax error: unexpected end of file
bash-2.05b$ 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/st0 type system (binmode)
\\.\tape0 on /dev/st1 type system (binmode)
\.tape0 on /dev/tape type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
bash-2.05b$
 
Which looks right to me, and when I try various flavors of mt, I get:
 
bash-2.05b$ mt -V
mt V2.3, Corinna Vinschen, Apr 19 2004
bash-2.05b$ mt -f /dev/st0 status
mt: /dev/st0: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$
 
I am able to umount the drive, but when I try to mount it again, I get: 
 
bash-2.05b$ mount \\.\tape0 /dev/st0
mount: warning - /dev/st0 does not exist.

bash-2.05b$ 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/st1 type system (binmode)
\.tape0 on /dev/tape type system (binmode)
\.tape0 on /dev/st0 type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
 
Any and all help would be appreciated. The tape drive does work fine under 
Linux on the same PC, so I know it's not a connectivity issue. 
 
Thanks in advance, 
Marc Schare
 
 
 


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