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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:35:55 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Miroslav Pendev <pendev@hotmail.com>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT] SDLT 320 tape drive question
Message-ID:  <20030320163555.A92738@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <F90kC4SwbPHn46Nwtx40000d8e9@hotmail.com>; from pendev@hotmail.com on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:21:22PM -0500
References:  <F90kC4SwbPHn46Nwtx40000d8e9@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 18:21:22 -0500, Miroslav Pendev wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We are going to buy Quantum SDLT 320 (GB) HVD SCSI tape drive.
> 
> It will be connected to FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE with
> Adaptec 29160 SCSI card and UltraTrack SX8000 RAID 5 (SCSI).
> The system is a production FileServer (samba).

You can't connect a HVD (High Voltage Differential) drive to a non-HVD
card.  The 29160 doesn't do HVD, but rather LVD.  I'd suggest getting
a LVD model instead.

From their specs, they support:

"LVD, Ultra 2 SCSI, HVD, Ultra SCSI"

So I'd get the Ultra 2 model (80MB/sec interface rate).  That will work
fine with the 29160.

Otherwise you'll need to find an Adaptec 2944 (that's a HVD board)
somewhere.

> Any problems with FreeBSD 4.6 and the Quantum SDLT drive?
> Is it recommended to upgrade to 4.7 or it should be OK with 4.6?
> 
> Any ideas, recommendations and etc. are welcome!
> 
> 
> I'm sorry for asking [OT] questions here, but I've always had good
> response from this list :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Miro
> 
> ===================================================================
> P.S. I am in the list, but for some reason freebsd's mail server is
> rejecting my mail from 3 diferent mail servers, so I've end up with
> hotmail.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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