Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 01:36:36 +0200 (MEST) From: Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Is anybody working on the tape driver? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511010419.2259A-100000@transrapid.artcom.de>
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Hello there, I'm currently working at the SCSI tape driver (under 2.2.6-RELEASE) because it seems to lack many features other systems already have. In particular, I need better fast-locate support and a better device statistics interface. The current progress state of the tape driver seems to be hibernating, similar to the changer driver nobody seems to have cared adding functionality for quite a while. On the other hand, recent discussions on this list indicate that people seem to use FreeBSD for backups, so there should be some interest in better tape support. I would want to integrate some of the functionality I currently access with perl/scsi(8) scripts into the tape driver. This would involve some structural changes to make MTIOCGET fully work, and also the addition of one or more additional ioctl's. This leaves me with the following questions: Is there anybody else working on the tape driver who would want to share code and/or information? Are there any features in the queue waiting to be commited? Replies solicited, Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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