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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:53:33 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape support for linux programs
Message-ID:  <20010409115333.A13105@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104091831550.29469-100000@dominik.saargate.de>; from "Dominik Brettnacher" on Mon Apr  9 18:32:58 GMT 2001
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104091831550.29469-100000@dominik.saargate.de>

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In the last episode (Apr 09), Dominik Brettnacher said:
> has anybody of you plans to make the Linux emulation support tape
> drives so that one can use Linux backup programs on FreeBSD?

It's not a matter of tape support; the tape drive support is fine. 
Lots of Linux backup programs want to send raw SCSI commands, though,
which means there needs to be an emulation layer to convert our
/dev/pass* devices to support Linux /dev/sgm* 's ioctls.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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