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- Subject: foreign tape recognition
- From: Stephen Hansen <hansen at arlut dot utexas dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:12:05 -0500
The problem I'm having is that the cygwin tar command isn't recognizing
a
tar tape made on a UNIX machine. The -c option works, but -t and -x
options
produce the following:
tar: /dev/nt0: Cannot read: Permission denied
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Incidentally, this message appears whether or not I'm at the beginning
of the
tape. Also, mt works on the tape, but dd fails. I read the online
manual and
its discussion of file permissions mentioned the chmod command. I
played
around a bit with it, but it wouldn't take /dev/nt0 (the directory onto
which
I've mounted my tape device--an Exabyte ESB) as an argument.
Thanks for your help.
stephen hansen
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