From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 23 18:38:31 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 B30E01578F for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26062; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:40:28 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:40:28 -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: <19991223211538.A21605@wallnet.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 > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:59:24PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Ick! Stackers are bad! > > > > What makes you say that? Aw, it's just a violation of a principle of least surprise that the (possibly unwitting) ejection of one tape automatically loads the next one. > > > 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. > > The reason I addressed this question to the FreeBSD list is because the > Amanda site specifically says that for changers it is dependent on the > tools in the underlying OS. Well, the amanda package that is appropriate for 2.2.X should give a hint as to what it expects. > > > Whether or > > not the old st driver copes with the DLT4000, who knows... probably. > > > > The drive apparently works for Greg. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Christopher Weimann SysAdmin 400 Higgins Ave > Wall Internet LLC. Brielle NJ, 08730 > Serving almost all of New Jersey 732-223-1777 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message