Accessing tape drive using passthrough driver

[Marco Senft]

Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> Anyway, that said, the SCSI passthrough interface under FreeBSD is
> different than the Linux or Windows, so they'll have to support the FreeBSD
> passthrough interface in order for it to work.
> 
> They claim FreeBSD support on their web site, so it may work.  (It isn't
> clear whether FreeBSD support is just for backup clients or for the backup
> server machine as well.)

TapeWare now fully works as backup server on my FreeBSD 4.7 system as 
well as client on a 5.2.1 machine (and a bunch of windows and linux 
clients).
I chose TapeWare because it has the broadest range of supported 
platforms amongst all other software I evaluated, and obviously it even 
works fully functional on all my FreeBSD systems thanks to your advice.


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