On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:25 am, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have recently acquired a new (old) server that came with a Compaq DLT Mini Library. The library has room for 15 tapes, and has a pair of 35/70 DLT drives inside it, along with a bar code reader (which I will probably never use). Having spoken to a Compaq support person, it seems that the drive is a Manatee or Manatee 2, if that helps. A search for this on the Compaq site yields no results, although there is a reference to it on the Arcserve site listing it as a supported device for their products.
I am trying to decide which avenue to follow for this device. I would like to either use it as a back-up device or as a near-line storage device. If it could do both simultaneously, that would be awesome, but I think that's unlikely.
My question is, does anyone know of any freely available utilities that would help with setting the device up as near-line storage ? I have found a few commercial offerings out on Google, and Freshmeat drew a blank, too. I can't spend a great deal of money on this as it is a home machine. I'd like to use it get our large collection of MPEG and MP3 files off the hard drives and free up some space.
Thanks, Stuart.
Hi Stuart, I know nothing about autochangers but found this on Freshmeat. MTX - SCSI Media Changer and Backup Device Control http://mtx.badtux.net/ Hope this helps. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------