From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 22:24:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FCE1065670 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B65E8FC0C for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o6FMOTmB035391 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6FMOTPf020785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o6FMOSX7020780; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Michael Anderson Message-ID: <20100715222428.GD5485@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100714222251.9yxdsf1foks8ks44@mail.elego.de> <20100715235033.pfusdz3400w840sk@mail.elego.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100715235033.pfusdz3400w840sk@mail.elego.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sata Tape Drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:24:33 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 15), Michael Anderson said: > Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some > other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware > compatibility documents. I see an "atapist" device in /sys/conf/NOTES: device atapist # ATAPI tape drives , which might work. The "atapicam" or "ahci" device may also make sata tapes show up as if they were scsi devices. Try "ahci" first. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicam -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com