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Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: Gnuwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:37:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT
- References: <NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGMEEADJAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0000, Kris Thielemans wrote:
> 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?
The blocksize. Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/mt.README.
Corinna
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