Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 22 14:46, cyril bonnard wrote:
> After installing the new dll of cygwin, the behaviour of mt changed to:
> 
> Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> $ strace -o trace.txt mt -f /dev/st0 status
> mt: /dev/st0: Bad address
> 
> Administrateur@t-0e0d94b2a0f54 ~
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status
> drive type = Unknown type of tape device
> drive status = 0
> sense key error = 0
> residue count = 0
> file number = -1
> block number = -1
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 00 (default).
> General status bits on (1010000):
> ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> 
> So i cannot provide you the trace and the stackdump with the new dll, i 
> send the stackdump corresponding to the PREVIOUS run and so to the old dll.
> 
> Concerning the SEGV, it occurs only while running strace and not while 
> running tar/mt alone.

My bad.  I had a bug in the strace related stuff inside the tape code.
Could you please rerun the whole strace stuff (mt, tar) using the new
Cygwin snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2 ?

Maybe we still have a chance to find out what's going wrong with your
tape drive.


Corinna

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