"John Andersen" <jsamyth@gmail.com> 6/5/2008 4:00 PM >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jack Malone <JMalone@horizonind.com> wrote:
"John Andersen" <jsamyth@gmail.com> 6/5/2008 3:47 PM >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@gmail.com> wrote:
This doesn't sound like leaving it to a trusted contractor... it sounds like leaving it to the recipient.
Jack may fill both roles for all we know.
I plan at the moment to just erase them seeing as a degasser from my googling runs from $1500 to $2000.
I'm wanting to know if the drive will be useable with SUSE before I spend time driving across town an getting it an bringing it back an setting it up. I have to make room for it on my server room also. I'm wondering if anyone on the list here has use this one or one similar with SUSE Linux an what software you would use. My new setup here I have SLES on my two new servers setup as a xen host for some virtual machines an need a reliable way to back or data. I do not much more then 300 gigs of data right now but have 1.8 terabyte of drive space on the San I have.
If the title of this thread refers to the actual unit, then the web page about this device states it does work under various unixs. However, you are going to need an interface card (scsi?) and that card may be the sticking point if its proprietary. So see if the card is supported by SLES, and your hardware. I got the StorageTek[ TimberWolf 9714 off of the paper the guy gave me. I knew it would take a scsi card an will find out next week which one it takes. I do have a hardware manuel on it from the sun website. I will look for an see if it has the type of card it needs. I plan to ask them what they used for software also. I might get some dell 2950 servers from them also, they are an energy company , gas / oil that upgrades their hardware every 3 years an looks for a non profit to pass the old stuff onto. I'm not sure how old the tape library is but the server are only 3 years old. I googled StorageTek[ TimberWolf 9714 an found out that sun now owns storageTek, but the library itself is end of life from what I read on the website. thanks for the info jack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org