Tim Scoggins schrieb: > I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin > under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize > to 0 >> mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 >> No errors. I can status the tape. >> But when I try to extract >> tar xvf /dev/nst1 >> I get >> tar: Cannot read: Invalid argument > tar: At beginning of tape; quitting now > tar: Error is not recoverable; exiting now Hi, how do you have create the node /dev/nst1? Under my cygwin there is no dev directory installed? Could you please help? MfG... Pierre Bernhardt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/