From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Nov 1 23:45:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634C237B72D; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E3852FC; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id XAA12931; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:40:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A011A5F.77800DC2@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:40:15 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Walter Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using tape drives in linux emulation References: <20001101181907.A33365@cicely8.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [cc'd to emulation@FreeBSD.org; please remove -current on future replies] Bernd Walter wrote: > > It seems that linux progs are using foreign ioctls on tape drives > which of course will fail. Of course? > Is there anyone already working on an emulation for these? AFIACT, no. > Are there similar problems for seriel devices? Probably. It's quite likely we don't support less frequently used or very specialized ioctls. These are mostly implemented on a need-to-have basis triggered by a can-be-done condition (what?) Do you know what you need? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message