Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:35:56 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar
Message-ID: <20050822193556.GH17452@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <BAY104-F26175E4F27B0516858B83B87B60 AT phx DOT gbl>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F26175E4F27B0516858B83B87B60@phx.gbl>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i

On Aug 22 14:46, cyril bonnard wrote:
> After installing the new dll of cygwin, the behaviour of mt changed to:
> 
> Administrateur AT t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> $ strace -o trace.txt mt -f /dev/st0 status
> mt: /dev/st0: Bad address
> 
> Administrateur AT t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> drive type = Unknown type of tape device
> drive status = 0
> sense key error = 0
> residue count = 0
> file number = -1
> block number = -1
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 00 (default).
> General status bits on (1010000):
> ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> 
> So i cannot provide you the trace and the stackdump with the new dll, i 
> send the stackdump corresponding to the PREVIOUS run and so to the old dll.
> 
> Concerning the SEGV, it occurs only while running strace and not while 
> running tar/mt alone.

My bad.  I had a bug in the strace related stuff inside the tape code.
Could you please rerun the whole strace stuff (mt, tar) using the new
Cygwin snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2 ?

Maybe we still have a chance to find out what's going wrong with your
tape drive.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
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/