resent in plain text On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a win2k client with a SCSI card connected to a Quantum l200 tape > loader - dlt7000 tape drive with a 8 slot robot. > > I made a backup of data on a dlt7000 connected to a Unix machine with the > tar command. > I would like now to read this tape with the hardware mentioned above. > > I have read the html doc. below > I attempted to do: > mt -f /dev/st0 status > and get the response resource busy. > > any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Manny Kaiser > > > On 6/9/05, Hugh Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I came across your article on nfs and cygwin. > > > Possibly you can help me out. > > > I have connected a tape drive to a scsi card on my win2k box. > > > I have a tape with tar files I created from a linux/unix backup. > > > > I have no personal experience reading tapes with Cygwin (or > > Windows for that matter.) I notice that folks who work with > > tapes seem to experience constant and mysterious injustices. > > (This has been true for at least 35 years.) > > > > I know that once you get the data off the tap, there are lots of > > tools in both Cygwin and native windows (FilZip for example) > > that will deal with the tar archive. > > > > Most Windows-based tools that work with tape do so with > > proprietary formats that become a total loss when the company > > that makes the backup device goes out of business. You are fortunate > > that the tape was created with Linux. At least the data can be > > decoded once you can read the drive. > > > > I'd get on the web with Google and search using a set of keys such > > as: > > > > Cygwin SCSI tape > > > > I did this for you and it appears that people do have success using > > the Cygwin/Posix device drivers. Here is one reference I found in > > about 4 seconds: > > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > > > > Let me know if you succeed. I might face the problem myself someday. > > > > -Hugh Sparks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Manny Kaiser > Mobile: +972-(0)50-8221122
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