Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-22 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? It's supposed to be, though right at the momen

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: > > Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the > > same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? > > It's supposed to be, though right at the moment I haven't i

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: >> If you want to see the name of the tape drive on your system, just open >> the Device Manager and then open the device tree element "Tape drives". >> You should find an entry named like your tape device, for instance >> "QUANTUM ULTRIUM 4" or something al

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-21 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Corinna, Thanks for your reply. My responses below... Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 20 15:24, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I'm trying to use tar from Cygwin 1.7 Beta on a Win 2008 R2 machine to backup some files to a Quantum LTO 4 SAS tape drive. I've tried all the usual POSIX paths (/dev/nst0, /

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 20 15:24, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: > I'm trying to use tar from Cygwin 1.7 Beta on a Win 2008 R2 machine to > backup some files to a Quantum LTO 4 SAS tape drive. I've tried all the > usual POSIX paths (/dev/nst0, /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc.) as well as some > other variants (\\.\tape0) with

Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-20 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
I'm trying to use tar from Cygwin 1.7 Beta on a Win 2008 R2 machine to backup some files to a Quantum LTO 4 SAS tape drive. I've tried all the usual POSIX paths (/dev/nst0, /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc.) as well as some other variants (\\.\tape0) with no joy. tar fails with a "No such file or direct