RE: Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K

e was shot! I wonder how many correct solutions passed by me without notice because of the bad tape! :/ many thanks and best regards, Brian Topping -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K

I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing? Drive is DDS, OS is W2KSP2, cygwin was just installed from net today: Administrator@BRIAN ~ $ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0 Administrator@BRIAN ~ $ mt -f /dev/st0 status No media datcompression : on min block size :1

Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K

I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing? Drive is DDS3, cygwin was just installed from net today: Administrator@BRIAN ~ $ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0 Administrator@BRIAN ~ $ mt -f /dev/st0 status No media datcompression : on min block size :1 max