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Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K
- From: "Brian Topping" <topping at digidemic dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:52:32 -0400
- Subject: Help! Can I access a tape created with UNIX tar under W2K
I think I got all of the things down, what am I missing? Drive is DDS, OS is
W2KSP2, cygwin was just installed from net today:
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ mount -b -f //./tape0 /dev/st0
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ mt -f /dev/st0 status
No media
datcompression : on
min block size : 1 max block size : 65536
def block size : 16384
report setmarks : on
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ mt -f /dev/st0 status
tape capacity : 0 KB remaining : 0 KB
current block : 0 write protected : no
datcompression : on
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status 2
tape capacity : 0 KB remaining : 0 KB
current block : 0 write protected : no
datcompression : on
min block size : 1 max block size : 65536
def block size : 16384 cur block size : 2048
report setmarks : on
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ tar -tvf /dev/st0
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: No space left on device
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Administrator@BRIAN ~
$ tar -tvf /dev/nst0
tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: No space left on device
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Thanks for your consideration of my plight! I'm trying to recover a website
for a friend, they are down until I can get this tape opened.
best regards,
Brian
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