On Dec 15 10:36, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > So, as you can see, the Windows NT tape functions doesn't allow me to set > > the block size to more than 64K, too. That's the same functionality used > > inside of Cygwin. I have no idea how to workaround that. I also didn't > > find anything useful on the Web so far. > > > > I'd *love* to get that solved, but I don't know how. I'm going to ask > > someone who's writing tape drivers for Windows, perhaps he has a clue. > > Other than that, I'm open to any useful hint from the community. > > A little googling found the following, but I don't have a tape drive so > I cannot test it... > <http://www.complanguages.com/Reading_128K_Blocks_off_a_DLT_via_Adaptec_AHA2940AU-7710081-5505-a.html>
Thanks Brian, that was very interesting. I tried it with my Adaptec U160 but unfortunately nothing changed. I had a quick look into winTar, but, alas, that's a proprietary application. If there's actually some problem with the SCSI adapter, then winTar apparently knows how to get around it. I don't know much about the SCSI low level interface... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/