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Re: tar question
- To: gnuwin32 <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar question
- From: Don Sharp <Don dot Sharp at dddandr dot octacon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:39:29 +0100
- References: <39F55191.5922AADC@NOSPAM-der.edf.fr-NOSPAM>
- Reply-To: dwsharp at iee dot org
I have it working fine on my NT system.
Remember to mount the NT tape path to /dev/your_choice_of_tape_name
You need separate mounts of the same NT device for rewind on open and no
rewind on open.
I have found that when creating a tape archive I have to issue an
"mt -f /dev/my_choice_of_tape_name status"
to ensure that QIC drives are initialised properly.
Hope that helps
Don Sharp
jean-hugues zorio wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I understand there's a port of tar in the 'latest' package.
>
> Does this tar 'know' how to access tape drives (DAT actually) on the
> SCSI bus (as /dev/rmt/... does not exist on the NT machine) ?
>
> If yes what's the syntax (the FAQ refers to the general tar doc. on the
> GNU site, which doesn't
> specify anything for non-Unix systems).
>
> If not, is there a tar available somewhere that will access a SCSI
> DAT drive directly.
>
> Free ?
>
> Commercial ?
>
> Thanks for any pointer.
>
> Jean-Hugues Zorio
>
> P.S. A few years ago, I had a DOS port of GNU-tar that used ASPI to
> access SCSI tapes. One can hope things have only become better since...
>
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