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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:01:06 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexandre Vasconcelos <alexandre@abdv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ServRAID 5i and DLT
Message-ID:  <41ACD182.1020408@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <41ACD0DF.4050001@abdv.net>
References:  <41ACAA88.5050307@abdv.net> <41ACCAAA.4070900@freebsd.org> <41ACD0DF.4050001@abdv.net>

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Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
>  > The ips driver has no mechanism for exporting SCSI devices like tape
> 
>> drives.  It's probably possible to examine something like the linux
>> driver and figure out how to make it work, but it likely requires
>> something in the range of 400-600 lines of code.
> 
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> Despite my little experience programming in C some day I would like to 
> contribute with this code to the community.. but I need to make this 
> tape works as soon as possible to replace another server with a hard 
> crashed tape, for this reason I'm running without backups. Witch adapter 
> would you recommend to work with this DLT tape on FreeBSD 5.3?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Alexandre

Any normal SCSI controller will work.  You can pick up fairly cheap LSI
and Adaptec controllers at major retailers and of course eBay.

Scott



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