Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:09:50PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: > (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the > default?). Once the typical blocksize was 5120 bytes on tapes. Today it's varying but many drive types support different block sizes. > - This versio

RE: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-27 Thread Kris Thielemans
Dear Corinna, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the blocksize. I've upgraded my cygwin installation to the very latest, and the problem seems to have disappeared. So, no worries anymore (I hope). (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the default?). By th

Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: > I'm trying to access a DAT tape produced on Unix using tar. The tape reads > fine on another Unix (Solaris) station. > > However Cygwin gives me this > > $ /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/st0 status > tape capacity: 1887232 KB > current

problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-22 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, I'm trying to access a DAT tape produced on Unix using tar. The tape reads fine on another Unix (Solaris) station. However Cygwin gives me this $ /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/st0 status tape capacity: 1887232 KB current block:0 write protected : no datcompres sion