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Re: cygwin and tape backup
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:23:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin and tape backup
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On Jun 9 21:08, Manny Kaiser wrote:
> resent in plain text
>
> On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <manny.kaiser@gmail.com> 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?
An strace might be interesting to see. I never saw a resource busy
other than if the resource was really busy.
Corinna
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