Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de> To: "dnelson@emsphone.com" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape support for linux programs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104092346220.32952-100000@dominik.saargate.de> In-Reply-To: <fc.21f3dbdf21f3dbdf3b9aca00d0f4ae6a.e00635@saargate.de>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dnelson@emsphone.com wrote:
> >> So does mt use raw SCSI commands?
> >> bash-2.04$ ./mt -f /dev/sa1 status
> >> ./mt: /dev/sa1: Invalid argument
> >> bash-2.04$ dmesg |tail
> >> [...]
> >> linux: 'ioctl' fd=3, cmd=6d01 ('m',1) not implemented
> Most of the 'mt' commands use an ioctl that is not emulated by FreeBSD.
> Emulating this would be considerably easier than the /dev/sgc stuff,
> but is still a bit complicated. The basic rewind/seek/filemark
> operations would be pretty easy.
How easy does 'pretty easy' mean? What does one have to do to support
those basic features?
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