Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:35:22 +0100 From: Marco Senft <m.senft@t2g.ch> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing tape drive using passthrough driver Message-ID: <405F6A2A.90800@t2g.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040322180718.GA46814@panzer.kdm.org> References: <405F1D1C.9050005@t2g.ch> <20040322180718.GA46814@panzer.kdm.org>
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Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Anyway, that said, the SCSI passthrough interface under FreeBSD is > different than the Linux or Windows, so they'll have to support the FreeBSD > passthrough interface in order for it to work. > > They claim FreeBSD support on their web site, so it may work. (It isn't > clear whether FreeBSD support is just for backup clients or for the backup > server machine as well.) TapeWare now fully works as backup server on my FreeBSD 4.7 system as well as client on a 5.2.1 machine (and a bunch of windows and linux clients). I chose TapeWare because it has the broadest range of supported platforms amongst all other software I evaluated, and obviously it even works fully functional on all my FreeBSD systems thanks to your advice. -- Marco Senft Technische Treuhand GmbH http://www.t2g.ch/
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