Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-12 Thread Mark Davies
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, you wrote: I completely missed the mpii driver. I'll order the card in the morning and see how it goes. Just to close this off: plugged the card in, mpii found it and the tape drive is there as st0 so all looks good. cheers mark

Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-11 Thread Mark Davies
On Wednesday 11 December 2013 20:46:17 Manuel Bouyer wrote: I found this: https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=413461 but that seems to use the mps driver on FreeBSD and NetBSD doesn't have it. Any guess on how hard it would be to port? Hopefully it's supported by

Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-11 Thread Eduardo Horvath
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Mark Davies wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Eduardo Horvath wrote: Last time I fiddled around with the LSI MegaRAID stack it did not provide any sort of transparent access to attached devices. Can you create a LUN with the tape device? You might have more success

SAS tape drives

2013-12-10 Thread Mark Davies
Are SAS tape drives supported in NetBSD? I have an LSI MegaRAID SAS card with an HP LTO5 SAS drive attached. The card's WebBIOS can see the tape attached and NetBSD can see the LSI card but NetBSD show no evidence of seeing the tape drive (not even as an unconfigured device). cheers mark

Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-10 Thread Eduardo Horvath
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Mark Davies wrote: Are SAS tape drives supported in NetBSD? I have an LSI MegaRAID SAS card with an HP LTO5 SAS drive attached. The card's WebBIOS can see the tape attached and NetBSD can see the LSI card but NetBSD show no evidence of seeing the tape drive

Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-10 Thread Mark Davies
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Eduardo Horvath wrote: Last time I fiddled around with the LSI MegaRAID stack it did not provide any sort of transparent access to attached devices. Can you create a LUN with the tape device? You might have more success with the LSI MPT stack. That at least provides

Re: SAS tape drives

2013-12-10 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:55:12PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Eduardo Horvath wrote: Last time I fiddled around with the LSI MegaRAID stack it did not provide any sort of transparent access to attached devices. Can you create a LUN with the tape device? You might