-------- Original Message -------- Subject: DDS4 DAT tape drives ( autoloaders / libraries ) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:28:22 +0100 From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've started looking for DDS4 DAT devices, as DDS3 seems to be tight.
The local vendor has the following, amongst the others.
IBM Tape 20/40GB DDS4 4mm Int. Drive - "R" ~670 EUR DAT HP DDS4 Trade Ready 40x6i 120-240GB int. Autoloader ~1160 EUR (this is a 6x tape library) FSC DAT Band-LW DAT DDS4 20GB 2.8MB/s for OBDR - "R" ~730 EUR DAT Sony SDT11000 DDS4 20-40GB int 5,25" OEM sans Software, sans Medium ~520 EUR
Given that the 6x tape library is only 2x the price of a vanilla DDS4 DAT drive, I'm thinking about buying it. Any (positive, negative) experience with the DAT HP DDS4 Trade Ready 40x6i 120-240GB int. Autoloader thingy, under SPARC Solaris and/or x86 Linux?
If I want to use this with a Solaris box, I need to probe-scsi-all in OpenBoot, define device aliases and create according /dev entries (or are those already present aliased to according devices?), and run an amanda tape probe on according (nonrewinding, noncompressing) device alias, right?
Am I missing something?
Thanks, Eugen Leitl
