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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:23:50 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin and tape backup
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On Jun  9 21:08, Manny Kaiser wrote:
> resent in plain text
> 
> On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <manny DOT kaiser AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> >  I have a win2k client with a SCSI card connected to a Quantum l200 tape
> > loader - dlt7000 tape drive with a 8 slot robot.
> >  
> >  I made a backup of  data on a dlt7000 connected to a Unix machine with the
> > tar command.
> >  I would like now to read this tape with the hardware mentioned above.
> >  
> >  I have read the html doc. below
> >  I attempted to do:
> >  mt -f /dev/st0 status
> >  and get the response resource busy.
> >  
> >  any suggestions?

An strace might be interesting to see.  I never saw a resource busy
other than if the resource was really busy.


Corinna

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