This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: trying to mount a DAT drive on Cygwin running on Windows 98 2nd Ed
- From: Mark Himsley <mark at mdsh dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "Sisira Jayasinghe" <sisira at cinci dot rr dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:03:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: trying to mount a DAT drive on Cygwin running on Windows 98 2nd Ed
- References: <002e01c20fd5$9f8a8020$6e00a8c0@athlon1800>
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:49:29 -0400 Sisira Jayasinghe wrote:
>I am trying to mount a DAT drive on Cygwin running on Windows 98 2nd Ed.
>using the command
>mount -b //./tape0 /dev/st0 # mount first tape as the rewind
>device...
>But it does not work. I tried to run mkdev and there was no such command.
>
>As I am new to Cygwin, I would appreciate if you can help me.
You do not have to mount the tape device. The devices /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
(the non-rewind version) are automagicly created for you if you have a tape
device connected to Windows.
Just use mt -f /dev/nst0 <command> and/or tar -<command> -f /dev/nst0.
--
Mark Himsley
In Acton
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/