From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: How does one access a tape drive in WinNT? 8 Feb 1997 06:45:28 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32FC6835.5045.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Does that \\.\tape0: in the mount table mean anything? Or do I have to use some "tape API"? I have a driver installed for my SCSI drive, and NTBackup can talk to it, but I wanna use something more like dd to read my tapes with wacky formats written from "that other OS". There's a dd in MKS that can talk to SCSI tapes, but I'd rather not have to pay $399 for it. Any guidance would be appreciated. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".