Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:49:37 +0000 Message-ID: <647-Tue12Dec2000144937+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin Subject: Re: new tape problems In-Reply-To: <3A2F7405.355E2EBF@redhat.com> References: <3A2F6B32.2B0542A6@epost.de> <3A2F7405.355E2EBF@redhat.com> On Thursday 7 Dec 00, Corinna Vinschen writes: > There's nothing wrong with your setup. The problem is that 9X doesn't > support the Win32 tape backup API which is used by Cygwin to access > the tape devices. AFAIK, tapes under 9x are only accessible via direct > calls to the driver. I would gladly appreciate if somebody provides a > general solution for 9x to incorporate into the fhandler_dev_tape class. > Up to then, you can't access tapes with Cygwin under 9x. I've added this to the 'known problems' section of the FAQ, with a link to this message. Thanks for the description of the problem. David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com