Why is Linux or FreeBSD required?
A. This project is designed to give free operating systems access to Tableau write blocking bridges’ HPA and DCO features. A Windows program is provided by Tableau for this purpose, but no Linux/Unix program existed previously. Currently only Linux and FreeBSD are supported, but other free operating systems may be supported in the future either through the use of sg3_utils or through native platform SCSI code. Note that tableau-parm may work ok on other platforms currently supported by sg3_utils, but these simply haven’t been tested. Please contact me if you have success on the other operating systems.