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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/