From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 22 8:32:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4371037B4D7; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAMGWGW15065; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:32:16 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:32:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP SureStore DAT 40x6i/e supported by FBSD 4.2? Message-ID: <20001122083216.B9088@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:52:52AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Trimming -stable from future replies since this is a question for -hardware.] On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:52:52AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > We need for our server systems backup solutions and I found > somnething interesting from HP, called SureStore 40x6i. It > is a internal DDS-4 DAT drive with a magaizne of 6 DAT cartridges. > It looks like a small juke-box to me. > > Can anyone tell me whether this system is supported or those > auto-changing backup- boxes are generally supported? SCSI changers are generally supported. I don't know if they mechanism supports the standard, but I've used these on systems without changer support. You can do this by putting it in a mode where it goes to the next tape on offline. I believe amanda can use them this way in gravity changer mode. On solaris there's a -o option to ufsdump which will cause the tape to advance after the dump by sending an offline. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message