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tape drive on nt
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: tape drive on nt
- From: Brian Perkins <briankperkins at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:15:00 -0500
Hello all,
I once used the MKS utilities to access my Exabyte 8505XL (but, the demo period expired ;)
So, has anyone got any of the CygWin magnetic tape utilities to work on NT?
I get these same results from a cmd or bash shell...
$ mt -V
mt V1.9.1, Corinna Vinschen, Jul 23 2000
$ mt offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f \\.\tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f \\\\.\\tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f //./tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f=\\.\tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f=\\\\.\\tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
$ mt -f=//./tape0 offline
mt: '(null)' is no tape device.
(Btw, tar and dd do not work either!)
Thx,
Brian
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