On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> is it impossible to run USB driven tapedrives under OpenBSD?
>
> The hardware list shows them to be officially not supported.
>
> My questions are:
> Aren4t they not detected as tapedrives under USB under OpenBSD?
> Or are there other reasons they are not mentioned in the hardware list?
> In case some people have tested it, any experiences to share?
> Can4t built-in tools like tar (or other ones?) be used?
*If* the tapedrive is recognized as, at least, a character device, it is
possible to use it with tar, dump, or AMANDA (much preferable, IMNSHO,
as it does a lot of the work that would otherwise need to be scripted
away; but it does assume some things, too, most importantly that the
host is usually on).
Joachim
