Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:48:25 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Johnny Matthews" <jmatthew@greenville.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drives W/ FreeBSD Message-ID: <199811162348.RAA04574@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Johnny Matthews" <jmatthew@greenville.edu> of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:20:51 CST." <000601be117d$141bc120$0d090a0a@jwm1.greenville.edu>
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"Johnny Matthews" writes: > We are buying a new server to install with FreeBSD and would like to know if > the SONY SDT-9000 internal SCSI DDS Tape drive is recognizable to FreeBSD. I don't have that model, so I can't say. But I do have some SDT-5200's at work. Have been less than happy with them under Solaris and Irix. Of course it works perfectly on a Macintosh with Retrospect and special drivers that know exactly what drive it is. Never had the opportunity to try one on my FreeBSD systems. Of particular problem is the issue of compression. And recognizing tapes which are not in the current compression mode. Have been very happy with DDS-1 and DDS-2 tape drives from Archive/ Connor/Seagate (Seagate bought Connor who bought Archive, but its not unusual for Seagate to ship a Connor manual for an Archive drive, nor to see Archive stickers on a Seagate tape drive.) Pre 3.0 FreeBSD may or may not have compressed tape support, if it does, I've never mastered it. The mt command in 3.0 lists compression mode. Its on my list to give it a workout soon. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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