From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 7 10:48:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA8414EEA for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17380; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:48:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:48:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , jedgar@fxp.org, chris@thedial.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIT/DLT Tape Compatibility In-Reply-To: <199907071719.TAA00754@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > > > I need a high capacity tape backup solution for FreeBSD. In the past, I > > > > have used DAT with no problems, but now I need something quite a bit > > > > bigger and more reliable. Does FreeBSD support AIT or DLT devices? Would > > > > these be considered "SCSI" as stated in the FreeBSD FAQ? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, AIT and DLT drives are considered SCSI if they use a standard SCSI > > > interface. As for specific drives, personally I have been using a Sony > > > SDX-300C (AIT) drive under FreeBSD since pre-3.0. > > > > I can also confirm that the SDX-300C works just fine under FreeBSD. It > > can even hold more than 50G on a single tape. :) > > To add to the confusion: DLT2000 and DLT4000 run just fine with FreeBSD. > I run both models. Don't have a DLT7000 but I have no reason to assume > it would work any less than the DLT[24]00 drives. Why is this confusion? Have I missed a bug report somewhere? The Onstream device support is in progress. It's not 50GB for this model, but that will be coming. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message