Re: IDE tape drives / backing up images?

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> >I understand IDE tape drives are not yet supported by RedHat Linux >- is
> this
> >correct?
> 
> Wrong. It is supported since kernel 2.0.33

And works fairly well. We just shipped a bunch of machines with the
Seagate Tapestor 4000 IDE drives, and I have one in a machine in the other
office that I do backups to (via the network -- I was out of slots in my
machine here :-(  ). Note that for the Tapestor 4000, at least, the huge
buffer needed to overcome the limitations of IDE means that the IDE
version is only about $30 cheaper than the SCSI version. So if you have
SCSI, by all means go with the SCSI version.  

> >I have a ... (peers under desk) Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb >internal
> drive
> >connected to an IDE port.

Some people have reported problems with the HP/Colorado IDE drives. In
general, I recommend staying away from HP/Colorado tape drives. Ever since
HP took over Colorado they've very much treated the Colorado line as their
"bargain basement" -- I have not been impressed with the quality of these
products. 

> Should work. If it doesn't, try using the kernelwith the SCSI-emulation.

As far as I know, the SCSI-emulation is broke :-(. 

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