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Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:27:14 +0200
Subject: Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
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On Aug 21 11:51, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 2013/8/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> >     This bug is present since 2004 and nobody noticed it.  I guess that
> >     means there aren't many people out there actually partitioning their
> >     tape drives...
> 
> FYI: we use cygwin tar on a daily base to backup one server to
> LTO2-tapes, but I have never partitioned a tape. Wasn't even aware it
> could be done.

Thanks for your info.  The other alternative would have been that
nobody uses Cygwin with tapes at all, which would have been kind of
frustrating...  :}


Corinna

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References:
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: bartels
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: bartels
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: bartels
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
  - From: Frank Fesevur

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