The old tapeio layer supported UWARE, XENIX, and AIX tape interfaces in addition to modern POSIX tape. The Device API also supports these tape devices, but we don't have any capacity to test the implementation at this point. Based on some googling, recent versions of AIX and HP/UX have POSIX support, and Xenix is basically gone at this point. I assume UnixWare supports the POSIX standard.
Does anyone out there intend to install the Amanda server, version 2.6.0 or higher, on hardware that does not support the POSIX tape interface? If not, I'd like to trim the fat.. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com