Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:51:42 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Kevin (HxPro) Wheatley" <hxpro@cinesite.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Emulating a SCSI tape device ... Message-ID: <XFMail.990512105142.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <37385B21.8884356D@cinesite.co.uk>
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On 11-May-99 Kevin (HxPro) Wheatley wrote: > I was was wondering about the possibility of using FreeBSD to emulate a > SCSI tape device, with the view to buffer files on disc, before writing > to slow tape devices, accessing via NFS etc. Has anybody got any > pointers to this sort of thing ?? You could try team (ports/misc/team) it doesn't buffer on disk (rather in memory) but it is quite handy for speeding slow tapes by feeding the continuously. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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