problem accessing tape with tar on NT

["Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>]

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   :       on

$ /usr/bin/tar xvf /dev/st0
/usr/bin/tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Permission denied
/usr/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

What's wrong?

(cygcheck output attached).

Thanks!

Kris Thielemans
(kris.thielemans <at> ic.ac.uk)
Imaging Research Solutions Ltd
Cyclotron Building
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 ONN, United Kingdom

web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris

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