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Re: b20.2 Problem accessing scsi tape drive on WIndows NT SP5.
- To: Paul Stearns <pauls at compuace dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: b20.2 Problem accessing scsi tape drive on WIndows NT SP5.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:02:23 +0100
- References: <389DA184.280B628B@compuace.com> <389EFD55.ED71FD7E@vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> [...]
> Anyway, as you already tried, you'll have to mount the tape:
>
> mount -s -f -b //./tape0 /dev/st0
Sorry, the -s and -f flags are not useful in b20.1
BTW: When you use _any_ command with tape io you have to use
the mount point instead of the native path:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl
dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null
or sth. else.
tar and mt from ftp.franken.de are using /dev/st0 by default.
Regards,
Corinna
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