Re: reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 12:51, hs wrote: > I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. > I use the same procedure that works on knoppix linux live distro. > > I am setting block size > mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 10240 > and then try to read from the device with cat > cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar > and I get

Re: reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread hs
sorry for answering by myself, the problem is solved without using cat but instead using tar to unpack tar archive directly from /dev/st0 On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:51:14 +0200, hs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. I use the same procedure that wo

reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread hs
Hi! I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. I use the same procedure that works on knoppix linux live distro. I am setting block size mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 10240 and then try to read from the device with cat cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar and I get a message like cat: /dev/nst0: Bad addr