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Re: Tape drive


Hi,

>Hi
>I am trying to use my hp dat drive with gnu-win32 in order to read tar files.
>How are devices addressed in this case ?
>if I do a dd if=? of=/mydir/tarfile what is the name of the device?
>Thank you for guiding the clueless... :)

It should be \\.\Tape<x>:, where x=0 is the first tape, x=1 the second,
and so on. These are mounted to /dev/<x>.

 $ mount
 ...
\\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      no-mixed,text=binary
\\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      no-mixed,text=binary
 ...

Unfortunately it doesn't work with the current release.
I don't know why.

>Jean-Pierre Sainfeld

Bye.
Michael.
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