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: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:15:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.12: mt sees incorrect maximum block size Message-ID: <20041216131549.GE9277@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5995792B428BD840906480B184A386CBB508A7 AT marvin DOT killerobot DOT com> <20041215090728 DOT GB13158 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <41C08441 DOT 45496BB3 AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C08441.45496BB3@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Dec 15 10:36, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > So, as you can see, the Windows NT tape functions doesn't allow me to set > > the block size to more than 64K, too. That's the same functionality used > > inside of Cygwin. I have no idea how to workaround that. I also didn't > > find anything useful on the Web so far. > > > > I'd *love* to get that solved, but I don't know how. I'm going to ask > > someone who's writing tape drivers for Windows, perhaps he has a clue. > > Other than that, I'm open to any useful hint from the community. > > A little googling found the following, but I don't have a tape drive so > I cannot test it... > Thanks Brian, that was very interesting. I tried it with my Adaptec U160 but unfortunately nothing changed. I had a quick look into winTar, but, alas, that's a proprietary application. If there's actually some problem with the SCSI adapter, then winTar apparently knows how to get around it. I don't know much about the SCSI low level interface... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/