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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>
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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.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com