--On Monday, October 14, 2002 08:13:20 -0500 Mike Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. There are many PC server vendors, quite a few can beat Dell's prices by a wide margin. But sometimes politics does win over economics. > 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? I'm controlling a Qualstar TLS4480 library with AIT-2 drives using a modifed chg-mtx on my Linux Amanda server with no problems. Frank > Thanks, > > -mgs > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
