Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-22 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? It's supposed to be, though ri

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-21 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Corinna, Thanks for your reply. My responses below... Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 20 15:24, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I'm trying to use tar from Cygwin 1.7 Beta on a Win 2008 R2 machine to backup some files to a Quantum LTO 4 SAS tape drive. I've tried all the usual POSIX paths

Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-20 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Sequential SCSI\RAW Is there any way to access this device using tar from cygwin? Can I specify Windows device paths with 1.7? If so, how would I identify the path to the device? Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeffrey C. Smith