From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 9 10:37:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dominik.saargate.de (dominik.saargate.de [212.88.130.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498EB37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dominik.saargate.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f39HbFj30178; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:37:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from domi@saargate.de) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:37:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Dominik Brettnacher To: "dnelson@emsphone.com" Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape support for linux programs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dnelson@emsphone.com wrote: > >> 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. So does mt use raw SCSI commands? bash-2.04$ ./mt -f /dev/sa1 status ./mt: /dev/sa1: Invalid argument bash-2.04$ dmesg |tail [...] linux: 'ioctl' fd=3, cmd=6d01 ('m',1) not implemented -- Dominik - http://www.brettnacher.org/users/dominik/ "I feel like my body is a station wagon in which I drive my brain around, like a suburban mother taking the kids to hockey practice." -- Douglas Coupland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message