On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:41 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
Hi, a little off-topic but I'm looking into replacing our old DDS4 tape drive which is now too small.
Our choice now looks like LTO, AIT or DLT as our total backup size is now 80Gb. Has anyone got any good/bad experiences with any of these technologies? I'm assuming that all will be recognised by SuSE on our servier which has both SATA and SCSI. What's the cheapest to buy and run?
thanks for any advice
Kevin, Do not get the Sony ait-1 atapi. The scsi may work but the atapi is a problem. I can not change the block size, many of the command take you to loop and you have to do turn the device off. So far is an expensive piece of equipment with the $ of 6 extra tapes sitting there. Interestingly it works ok under OS/2. Under linux I was able to make a couple of tapes using cpio and 512 block. Sony support help somehow but most of their knowledge comes from the save machine but connected to a scsi adapter. Their atapi knowledge is with windows. This coming weekend I will try it again in suse 10.2 before I thrush it. All my attempts have been with SuSE 10 and 10.2. I have tested also with some of the commercial backup programs with no success either. I have not found anybody using linux and the ait-1 drive atapi with good results. I found a couple of threads with the same problems I had and no solution. So be sure before you buy a tape drive that someone else is using it without problems and what software are they using. Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org