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Re: Reading tapes from solaris on NT using dd.exe


On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:48:30PM +0100, Johannes Tyve wrote:
> > > I'm trying to read some tapes on my NT workstation using cygwin dd.exe. I recieve the error > "Permission denied".
> > [...]
> The mt command doesn't accept "mt setdesity" or "mt drvbuffer". The
> error is "function not implemented". Medium capacity is according to the
> manual = 5Gb, uncompressed. And is found as a density using "mt
> densities". Is there some other way to use mt?

try `mt status 2'. You will get an output containing the current
blocksize set by NT. It's likely set to 512 bytes which is unlikely
the blocksize used by Solaris. Set the blocksize either to the
value of the Solaris tape driver or set it to 0 which enables
variable blocksize tape I/O iff the NT tape driver for your drive
supports it. `mt status 3' gives loads of output describing the
supported features of the tape driver.

Corinna

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