From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 23 17:57:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49ED7156B2 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:57:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25965; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:59:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:59:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Christopher S. Weimann" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum DLT tape library compatibility In-Reply-To: <19991224114626.C1316@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Grog wrote: > That's just the drive. I thought that's what you were asking about. > The worst that can happen with the changer is that the changer > commands won't work. The changers I've seen understand things like > "move to next cassette on eject", which has been adequate for the > things I wanted. Ick! Stackers are bad! The DLT changer electronics/mechanics are pretty straightforward and are unlikely to be affected one way or the other. You may have a task finding the right version of amanda that can cope, but that'll be fine. Whether or not the old st driver copes with the DLT4000, who knows... probably. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message