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 Message-ID: X-Originating-Email: [cyril_bonnard AT hotmail DOT com] X-Sender: cyril_bonnard AT hotmail DOT com From: "cyril bonnard" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:50:51 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello everybody, I try to read and write data to a tape using tar under CIGWIN with: -a SUN MODEL 411 tape reader hosted in my PC through a SCSI card -Win 2000 -latest Cygwin version when i try to get info about the tape i get: $ mt -f /dev/st0 status mt: /dev/st0: Invalid request code when i try to write to the tape i get: $ tar -cvf /dev/st0 d:/importPy d:/importPy/ d:/importPy/a.py d:/importPy/a.pyc d:/importPy/a.py~ d:/importPy/b.py d:/importPy/b.py~ tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now i browsed the web and the cygwin mailing list archives without finding the same pb... i tried 2 other tools (port of tar under windows) and i get roughly the same errors! i tried differents tapes without any success But with he evalutation version of WinTar SCSI it works fine.... if someone have any idea for solve these errors , it would be of great help! Notice: rewinding and erasing work -- 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/