Re: cygwin and scsi tape drive.

[Marc Schare <marc9 at aol dot com>]

Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Have you read
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>?
> 
> Particularly the part about "Note that you can't use the mount table
> to map from fixed device name to your own device name."
> 
> 


I did read the note, but I don't think I'm trying to do that. Again, here is 
the result from the mount command: 

C:\Documents and Settings\Marc>mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
\device\tape0 on /dev/st0 type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
\\.\tape0 on /dev/st1 type system (binmode)
\.tape0 on /dev/tape type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)

Which clearly states that \device\tape0 is mounted on /dev/st0, which tells me 
I should be able to use /dev/st0, but when I try, I get this: 


C:\Documents and Settings\Marc>mt -f /dev/st0 status
mt: /dev/st0: No such file or directory

For grins, I also tried this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Marc>mt -f \device\tape0 status
mt: \device\tape0: No such file or directory

Without success. The ls command can find the drive:

C:\Documents and Settings\Marc>ls -l /dev/st0
crw-rw-rw-    1 Marc     None       9,   0 May 28 11:57 /dev/st0

So.. what am I doing wrong? 

Thanks!
Marc Schare





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