Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41C08441.45496BB3@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:36:49 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.12: mt sees incorrect maximum block size References: <5995792B428BD840906480B184A386CBB508A7@marvin.killerobot.com> <20041215090728.GB13158@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So, as you can see, the Windows NT tape functions doesn't allow me to set > the block size to more than 64K, too. That's the same functionality used > inside of Cygwin. I have no idea how to workaround that. I also didn't > find anything useful on the Web so far. > > I'd *love* to get that solved, but I don't know how. I'm going to ask > someone who's writing tape drivers for Windows, perhaps he has a clue. > Other than that, I'm open to any useful hint from the community. A little googling found the following, but I don't have a tape drive so I cannot test it... Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/