Re: SAS tape drives

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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 (not 
> even as an unconfigured device).

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 transparent access to the target devices.  I don't know whether 
mpt hooks into NetBSD's scsipi layer in a way that it will attach non-disk 
devices, but I suspect it would.

Eduardo