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MacOS version

Open albertogarciacz opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Hello, is there a chance to run this tool on MacOS?

albertogarciacz avatar Mar 06 '22 01:03 albertogarciacz

I have no OSX available. Please report, if you can test it.

jonasstein avatar Mar 06 '22 02:03 jonasstein

I have MacOS available. I can possibly test it.

albertogarciacz avatar Mar 06 '22 02:03 albertogarciacz

I tried to manually compile from source. However, when I ran ./configure the below mentioned error came up. checking your OS... configure: error: unknown OS type: Darwin I guess that code has to be adjusted for MacOS.

albertogarciacz avatar Mar 06 '22 14:03 albertogarciacz

According to the following, I don't think this is doable:

  • no built-in SCSI tape driver
  • no mtio.h header file for tape control ioctls
  • no mt command available for doing everything else you'd need

I've seen some commercial utilities that do LTFS for MacOS, and they are maybe supplying their own DriverKit extension to interface with the drive. I think doing the same would be out of scope for stenc... have you tested connectivity of a tape drive using a bare-metal SAS HBA or iSCSI initiator on MacOS?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/380390/is-it-possible-to-install-the-gnu-mt-tape-drive-command-in-osx

jmwilson avatar May 02 '22 19:05 jmwilson