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Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
- From: Frank Fesevur <ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:51:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
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2013/8/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> This bug is present since 2004 and nobody noticed it. I guess that
> means there aren't many people out there actually partitioning their
> tape drives...
FYI: we use cygwin tar on a daily base to backup one server to
LTO2-tapes, but I have never partitioned a tape. Wasn't even aware it
could be done.
Regards,
Frank
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