From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 9 9:53:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC1A37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f39GrX218216; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:53:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:53:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dominik Brettnacher Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape support for linux programs Message-ID: <20010409115333.A13105@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from "Dominik Brettnacher" on Mon Apr 9 18:32:58 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message