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06-01-2003

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Originally posted by AMDPwred
Sounds like a good idea. How different is FreeBSD from RH?

Many and few. Smilie

Ok enough of the cryptic answers.
There are appreciable differences between the two operating systems. One, Linux is a kernel, RedHat, SuSE, etc all package usable applications around the kernel and "sell" it as a distro. FreeBSD on the other-hand comes as a complete Operating system with no added extra's that haven't yet been tested against the kernel.

From a users point of view it will depend on what your going to do. If your a desktop user and aren't overly interested in the backend stuff, then installing KDE and the like you'll feel right at home and only notice a few nuances to distract you.From the command line its a different story. Things are in different places compared to Linux, also some commands don't work the same.

There are BSD forums that can answer you query better than I can, so do a google search, better yet, just download it and give it a go its guaranteed to give you hours of "fun"! Smilie

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tapeinfo

TAPEINFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       TAPEINFO(1)

NAME

       tapeinfo - report SCSI tape device info

SYNOPSIS

       tapeinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>

DESCRIPTION

       The  tapeinfo  command  reads  various information from SCSI tape drives that is not generally available via most vendors' tape drivers. It
       issues raw commands directly to the tape drive, using either the  operating  system's  SCSI  generic  device  (	e.g.  /dev/sg0	on  Linux,
       /dev/pass0 on FreeBSD) or the raw SCSI I/O ioctl on a tape device on some operating systems.

       One  good  time	to  use 'tapeinfo' is immediately after a tape i/o operation has failed. On tape drives that support HP's 'tapealert' API,
       'tapeinfo' will report a more exact description of what went wrong.

       Do be aware that 'tapeinfo' is not a substitute for your operating system's own 'mt' or similar tape driver control program. It is intended
       to supplement, not replace, programs like 'mt' that access your operating system's tape driver in order to report or set information.

OPTIONS

       The first argument, given following -f , is the SCSI generic device corresponding to your tape drive.  Consult your operating system's doc-
       umentation for more information (for example, under Linux these are generally start at /dev/sg0 under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).

       Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you have, along with which 'pass' device controls  them.  Under  Linux,
       "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" will tell you what SCSI devices you have.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of tape drives (HP DDS4, Seagate AIT).

AVAILABILITY

       tapeinfo  is  currently being maintained by Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> formerly of Enhanced Software Technologies Inc. The 'mtx' home
       page is http://mtx.sourceforge.net and the actual code is currently available there and via CVS from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/ .

SEE ALSO

       mt(1),mtx(1),scsitape(1)

								    TAPEINFO1.0 						       TAPEINFO(1)