Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
- Subject: Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
- From: Graham J Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:50:35 +0100
On 21 Jun 2005, at 06:40, Peter Seebach wrote:
I have old SCSI tape drives, but they don't show up using my firewire
to SCSI
adapter, and I don't have a SCSI controller that will work at all in
my G5.
Does anyone out there have a tape device which actually shows up in
/dev? If
so, what does it show up as?
Correct me if I'm wrong [please do - I have an LTO Ultrium drive that
needs plugging into an XServe] but there hasn't been any support for
the UNIX SCSI tape driver (i.e. /dev/st) in OS X or Darwin since 10.0
(OS X Server 1.x had it, IIRC). Unfortunately this means that without
some extension (probably commercial) you can't just use a SCSI tape :-(
There was an SF project to create a tape driver,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwin-tape, created a few years ago
but so far no releases - anyone know the status of it?
--
Graham Lee GPG Key ID: 01D5B9D8
UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course
Coordinator, UKUUG Apple SIG
(http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/apple-sig)
Technical bod, Oxford Mac Users' Group (http://www.oxmug.org)
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