mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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