Folks -- I want to thank everybody for all the feedback. Diskwise, it's nice to know that IDE solutions are workable, and I'm going to look into them. Politically (isn't it always about the politics?) I'm in all likelihood going to be forced into using Dell hardware, and as far as I can tell from some site browsing at dell.com, Dell stuff is all SCSI-based once you get into that kind of capacity.
I'm still curious about hooking up an AIT3 tape library to Linux, and whether or not the mtx or scsi-changer drivers can actually control something like a QualStar or Overland tape library. Is anyone out there using AIT3 tape libraries, and if so, what are you using to connect the amanda software to them? Thanks, -mgs
