OS X (lack of) tape support, was Re: [HECnet] tape image manipulations...

[Dave McGuire]

On 02/16/2014 08:33 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
As for the OSX lack of mtio.h - i've just pulled it from FreeBSD and
never had an issue - obviously there is not driver. I 100% agree -- it
does seems nuts and I've b*tched at my friends at Apple about it a few
times.     Another thing I have on my todo list is try to slide the
drivers back into an hackintosh i had running on a vm in a system that
has an old DEC/Adaptec PCI card in it that I still use for SCSI tapes.   
That said, when I have needed the tape I've just used the BSD driver on
the base system.

  Apple suddenly and arbitrarily removed the tape drivers from OS X
years ago.   That was one reason why I dumped OS X.   They unilaterally
decided that I didn't need tape support, and I don't like being told how
to conduct my business.

                              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA