Re: Exabyte VXA tape drives - anyone using?

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Run it through strace(1) and ktrace(1) in Linux and see what devices it talks to in /dev and see if they can be emulated. It's probably talking to /dev/ns{r,a}0 and /dev/ch0, depending on udev/autodev/ foo-bar-latest-greatest linux framework. You might also check the Amanda/Bacula list archives.

Exabyte VXA tape drives - anyone using?

2007-06-27 Thread Rob
Hi All, We have an Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive that I'm planning to hook up to a FreeBSD server. It's been on different box running linux for a few years. Wondering if anyone has tried to run the vxaTool utility for this drive using Linux emulation on FreeBSD? It's just a simple utility for