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Re: REALLY need help prior to 1.3.4 release
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Don Sharp wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
...snip...
> >> I'm still not hearing from any volunteers with tape drives. That's
> >> rather disappointing since I know that the whinging will start within
> >> hours after I release 1.3.4, if this is actually broken.
> >
> >Sorry Chris, it's no go. Result of my session with the
> >cygwin1-20011005.dll snapshot is appended. "datasave" is a shell script
> >tarring a number of partitions in separate sections onto the tape. I
> >tried tarring /tmp directly to show that it wasn't my script causing the
> >failure. I am also adding the strace output for the last command.
> >
> >All cygwin up to date in case you are wondering.
>
> Thank you, Don! This was exactly what I needed. Your strace helped me get
> to the cause of the problem. I hope that this will be fixed in the next
> snapshot. I'm updating the snapshot as I type.
>
Retrying with the updated snapshot.
don@DON ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 DON 1.3.4s(0.46/3/2) 20011005 22:54:30 i686 unknown
don@DON ~
$ cd /tmp
don@DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
tape capacity : 1624541 KB remaining : 1624541 KB
current block : 0 write protected :
no datcompression : on
don@DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
don@DON /tmp
$ tar cf /dev/nst0 .
don@DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 tell
At block 1248.
don@DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
tape capacity : 1624541 KB remaining : 1614142 KB
current block : 1248 write protected :
no datcompression : on
don@DON /tmp
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
don@DON /tmp
$
Seems to have done it for me too. Tape reads back OK.
Glad to be able to help on this occasion.
Cheers
Don Sharp
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