Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:04:53 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SDLT tape drives Message-ID: <20030409150453.GL30909@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030409123412.G33752-100000@fw.office.icom> References: <20030409123412.G33752-100000@fw.office.icom>
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In the last episode (Apr 09), Bogdan TARU said: > I am considering acquiring an SDLT tape drive (160 uncompressed / > 320GB compressed) with an Adaptec 29160, but don't know what could be > the shortcomings of using it under freebsd. Anyone had any > experiences? > > A freebsd mailing list search resulted in only one result (and that > one not really revealing much). SDLT drives are mentioned in the > mt(1), but that doesn't say much either. FreeBSD just sees it as a tape drive. You can assume that pretty much all SCSI tape and disk drives will work. You don't have to specifically ask about a particular model. I had no problems using DLT autoloaders on our FreBSD servers. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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