[lug] Tape Drives on Linux

[dan radom]

adaptec 2940.  i've been thinking of getting rid of my sony sdx-s300c (25/50 Gig drive with 7 tapes and an adaptec 2940uw card.  any takers?

* Greg Horne (jeerygh at hotmail.com) wrote:
>      Okay, maybe SCSI is what I need then.  If I were to use SCSI i'd
>      want to use a PCI add-on card (motherboards don't support SCSI) and an
>      External drive.  Any recomendations there?
> 
> - - -
> Greg Horne
> 
> Thursday, November 08, 2001, 8:45:15 AM, you wrote:
> 
> JK> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Greg Horne said:
> 
> >> I'm don't want to use iomega drives anymore.  Does anybody have
> >> suggestions as to which tape drives work the best under Red Hat Linux?
> >>
> >> I Need
> >> -------
> >> 1. External (Unless there is a really good internal drive, but I have
> >>    about 8 servers that will need to be using backup, so...)
> >> 2. Non-SCSI
> >> 3. At least 2GB storage capacity on the tapes
> 
> JK> Sorry, I can't make a direct recommendation, but I will say that your luck
> JK> would likely be better dealing with SCSI drives.  That way you avoid the
> JK> necessity of a driver other than having the appropriate SCSI kernel
> JK> support and the mt pkg.
> 
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