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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: tape support
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:51:54 +0300
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 =C3=A0 12:54 +0200, Dietmar Maurer a =C3=A9=
crit :
>  =20
>> Is there a way to use a scsi tape? I tried -drive file=3D/dev/sg0, b=
ut
>> that does not work (eject, rewind works, but read/write fails - no d=
ate
>> is written - no errors)
>>    =20
>
> try "-drive file=3D/dev/sg0,if=3Dscsi"
>  =20

How would that work?  Won't qemu attempt to show the tape as a disk?  O=
r
does it detect this special case and passes-through the scsi device?

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