[lug] Tape Drives on Linux

[Malcolm Carlson]

How much are you asking for the AIT-1 drive and tapes?



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On 11/9/01, 1:01:33 PM, "dan radom" <dradom at redback.com> wrote regarding 
Re: [lug] Tape Drives on Linux:


> 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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