Seagate and HP both make TR5 (AKA NS20) drives, 200USD for IDE and
400USD for SCSI. These hold 10GB (20GB compressed). There are also
TR4 and smaller drives with smaller, multi-gigabyte capacities. The
stock IDE tape driver broke somewhere around 2.2.9 for the NS20
drives. The IDE SCSI emulation works, though it gives error messages.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Cliff Sarginson
Hello, I am looking at the feasibility of various backup devices for use with Linux. It would prefereably work out of the box with Linux.
I have eliminated ZIP drives, they are ridiculously over-priced (at least in Holland) and 250 MB is not big enough. I have CD/RW and could use that I suppose but it's a bit of a fiddle. Dat would be ok, but the devices are expensive, although at tapes are cheap. DLT woud be out of my price range, and way over-kill.
Any other ideas or devices ? I have both spare SCSI and USB capacity on one of my networked systems. And parallel port capacity on all of them. I would rather not look at IDE devices (this is more to do with what I do with my systems than anything philosophical).
What capacity I hear you cry ! Say around 1gig+, compressed.
And don't suggest LS120 :)
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