From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 7 10:45:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219D615251 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA28502; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:40:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00754; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:19:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199907071719.TAA00754@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: AIT/DLT Tape Compatibility In-Reply-To: <199907070317.VAA88180@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Jul 6, 1999 9:17:27 pm" To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:19:43 +0200 (CEST) Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, chris@thedial.com, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > Chris D. Faulhaber wrote... > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > > > > I need a high capacity tape backup solution for FreeBSD. In the past, I > > > have used DAT with no problems, but now I need something quite a bit > > > bigger and more reliable. Does FreeBSD support AIT or DLT devices? Would > > > these be considered "SCSI" as stated in the FreeBSD FAQ? > > > > > > > Yes, AIT and DLT drives are considered SCSI if they use a standard SCSI > > interface. As for specific drives, personally I have been using a Sony > > SDX-300C (AIT) drive under FreeBSD since pre-3.0. > > I can also confirm that the SDX-300C works just fine under FreeBSD. It > can even hold more than 50G on a single tape. :) To add to the confusion: DLT2000 and DLT4000 run just fine with FreeBSD. I run both models. Don't have a DLT7000 but I have no reason to assume it would work any less than the DLT[24]00 drives. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message