Getting data off a UNIX tape drive

Hi, We have a Sony SDT-11000 SCSI tape drive and a tape that may or may not be damaged. We are trying our best to get as much data off the tape drive, which was recorded originally using tar. We were unsuccessful by actually using linux so we decided to get windows + cygwin a go. Here's what we

SOS Kosovo

Dear Lady/Sir, My name is Dr. Defrim Kerqagu and I am from Rahovec/Kosovo. I am writing this E-mail to you for your possible assistance in helping two young children from my town (my patients) that suffer from Congenital Heart Disease. Your assistance is required and appreciated to take them fo

Re: Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... Been there, done that: $ /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-cygwin-xp-sp2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ATA/SATA driver is possibly a SCSI class driver not supporting SMART.

Re: Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

On Jun 17 19:04, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > $ /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i /dev/sda > > smartctl version 5.37 [i686-cygwin-xp-sp2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > > Allen > > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Device: ATI 1+0 JBOD Vers

Re: -mwindows and hour glass

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Wingert wrote: > I am trying to write a small program that does not pop up a window. I > found the -mwindow option. It does not pop up a window, but while the > program is running explorer shows the hour glass busy cursor until the > appl

Re: [ITP] p7zip

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jun 17 01:21, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio [...] >> ... and is available in which stable Linux distros? > > > Debian, for example. > 7linu

Re: Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

Corinna Vinschen wrote: ATA/SCSI autodetection is also still missing, therefore it is required to use /dev/hdX for ATA, and /dev/sdX for SCSI (or ATA behind SATL) disks. This is also not consistent with Cygwin's device names, but more difficult to fix. I have another strange behaviour w

Re: Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

On Jun 17 17:00, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Christian, > > > >On Cygwin the device names for tapes are /dev/stX and /dev/nstX. > >Smartmontools require to use /dev/tapeX. Any problem to change > >that so that the /dev/stX, /dev/nstX syntax works on Cygwin as well? > > > >

Re: Some notes on building gcc-4.3.0

Charles Wilson wrote: > > Are we really going to tell them that there is no choice in the matter, > > that if they want cross-.so EH they must suffer shared libraries? > > Yes. Microsoft does the same thing. They just have an inside advantage > in supplying their runtime with the OS. > > > The

Re: Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Christian, On Cygwin the device names for tapes are /dev/stX and /dev/nstX. Smartmontools require to use /dev/tapeX. Any problem to change that so that the /dev/stX, /dev/nstX syntax works on Cygwin as well? No problem, easy to fix. I will add this. ATA/SCSI autod

RE: No deinstall routinge for cygwin?

On 17 June 2007 13:51, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > Hello, > > could not found an deinstall information, neighor on my computer > nor on website or documentation. > > What should I do? Try the FAQ :-) http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all cheers, DaveK --

Re: [ITP] p7zip

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 01:21, Charles Wilson wrote: >> 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio [...] > >... and is available in which stable Linux distros? Debian, for example. Cheers, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

No deinstall routinge for cygwin?

Hello, could not found an deinstall information, neighor on my computer nor on website or documentation. What should I do? MfG... Pierre Bernhardt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

Christian, On Cygwin the device names for tapes are /dev/stX and /dev/nstX. Smartmontools require to use /dev/tapeX. Any problem to change that so that the /dev/stX, /dev/nstX syntax works on Cygwin as well? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to C

How to unload a dynamically loaded cygwin dll from a MSVC program

Hello Everyone, Is there a way to unload the Cygwin dll which has been dynamically loaded using the concept given in cygload.cc. This has to be done from a MSVC executable. I am able to load the cygwin dll by calling cygwin_dll_init() function after making a call to LoadLibrary(" cygwin1.dll") us

bug in tcsh 6.15.00-4

I've found a small bug in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh of tcsh package 6.15.00-4, which makes some problems if $HOME contains white spaces. The fix for this is an easy one as this diff shows: % diff /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh.org 42,43c42,43 < if ( -r "$f" )