From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 9 14:47:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dominik.saargate.de (dominik.saargate.de [212.88.130.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C212B37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:47:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dominik.saargate.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f39LlOi32956; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:47:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Dominik Brettnacher To: "dnelson@emsphone.com" Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape support for linux programs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- Dominik - http://www.brettnacher.org/users/dominik/ "The less of a life, the more mail you read." -- Douglas Coupland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message