From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Test, question
22 Feb 1997 04:41:57 -0800
Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <330EB8A6.69A7.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com>
References: <c=US%a=_%p=BARRA%l=ZEUS-970221222539Z-20838@exchangebrk.barra.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: Aki Sasaki/mail+schedule <Aki.Sasaki@exchangebrk.BARRA.com>
Original-CC: "'gnu'" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com

Aki Sasaki/mail+schedule wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded and installed the full version of cygwin32...
> basically, i wanted to use it to tar an entire directory (the d:\ drive)
> to tape0.
> is there something i'm doing wrong, or is this impossible?
> otherwise the bash shell seems to be working...
> i can access my a:\ drive, although the cdrom and cdr seem to be defunct
> (that's ok, i only need the tape drive).  but i can't seem to open or
> write to /dev/st0.
> 
> just in case it matters...it's an exabyte scsi 8mm drive, adaptec
> controller.  but scsi doesn't seem to matter, since the d:\ drive is
> also scsi, same controller.  i can also get to the tape drive through
> the NT backup utility...
> 
> any ideas?

/dev/st0 is mapped (via the mount table) to \\.\tape0
However, path.cc is broken; it turns that into \\tape0
You could ask Geoff Noer to fix it, but you might need to buy a license
first.

--
<J Q B>
-
For help on using this list, send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".