I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me "Loosing everything" lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive I have been told that with linux "most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI tape dirves will work" I have had a secret desire (ok..not so secret) to start using SCSI on my
home system for some time now.... I found I can get a 4 gig tape drive (uncompressed...uses Travan TR4 tapes) for about $200 it is a Seagate T*Stor 8000 Internal SCSI (model sgt8000iS) Does anyone kno wmuch about this drive? how much troubl eam I looking at? I already know I will have to recompile my kernel (I ALWAYS use a custom built kernel and my current one had SCSI suport turned off completely) I will also need a SCSI controller card... I got (for free) a SCSI controller... somone bought an internal SCSI Zip drive here at work but already had a SCSI card so they gave me the new one from the Zip drive... is this controller worth bothering with or should I spend the $$ to get a better one? I am looking for any recommendations (I am tired of buying hardware and having it break and not work so easily....so this time im not going to "Impulse Buy" my computer hardware) -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]