Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

[cyril bonnard]

Ok, i'll reinstall the driver, the strange thg is that wintar-scsi works 
fine !?
to be continued....
cyril




>From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar
>Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:38:12 +0200
>
>On Aug 23 09:17, cyril bonnard wrote:
> > So here we are again ;-)
> >
> > the output:
> > Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> > $ strace -o d:/stracemt mt -f /dev/st0 status
> > mt: /dev/st0: Invalid request code
> >
> >
> > Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> > $ strace -o d:/stracetar tar -cvf /dev/st0 d:/importPy
> > d:/importPy/
> > d:/importPy/a.py
> > d:/importPy/a.pyc
> > d:/importPy/a.py~
> > d:/importPy/b.py
> > d:/importPy/b.py~
> > d:/importPy/Copie de a.py
> > d:/importPy/Copie de a.pyc
> > d:/importPy/Copie de a.py~
> > d:/importPy/Copie de b.py
> > d:/importPy/Copie de b.py~
> > tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>Well, I had a look into the straces and it's really weird.  Opening
>the tape device works fine, but calling any of the Win32 tape functions
>(for instance GetTapeParameter) results in a Win32 error 1, "Incorrect
>function".  I can't change anything in Cygwin to circumvent this and
>I can't get any further information.  It's just this, no Win32 tape
>access function is working.
>
>This is really unexpected.  I'm wondering if something's broken in your
>configuration.  Maybe the driver is broken?  Perhaps you should try to
>reinstall it or something.
>
>
>Sorry if that's no help,
>Corinna
>
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