tar exabyte 8500 under xp
Pierre Bernhardt
pierre@starcumulus.owl.de
Fri Dec 15 13:36:00 GMT 2006
Tim Scoggins schrieb:
> I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin
> under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize
> to 0
>
> mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0
>
> No errors. I can status the tape.
>
> But when I try to extract
>
> tar xvf /dev/nst1
>
> I get
>
> tar: Cannot read: Invalid argument
> tar: At beginning of tape; quitting now
> tar: Error is not recoverable; exiting now
Hi,
how do you have create the node /dev/nst1?
Under my cygwin there is no dev directory installed?
Could you please help?
MfG...
Pierre Bernhardt
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