On Monday 14 October 2002 09:13, Mike Simpson wrote: >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.
Of Topic, yes, but... Ever hear of the likes of www.TCWO.com? You can build that "Dell" for maybe $300 USD right in house, and never ever have to pay the $200 M$ tax because you'll put linux on it to run this anyway. We haven't bought a name brand, new box in 5 years! You'll get more ram and a bigger drive to boot with your newfound ability to save money AND get exactly what you want. we built a 4 disk (160g disks) ata based raid array that gives us 320g about 6 months back, runs rsync, and did it for about $1400. You could probably do it for less today. >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? That I'll defer to those that are doing it, and there are some doing that here. Probably with chg-scsi. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
