On Monday 19 January 2004 12:03, Eugen Leitl wrote: >-------- 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?
Not that I can think of off hand. And while my DDS2 changer is a Seagate, I've not heard anybody bad mouthing the HP's either (unless it was a travan & we won't go there as nobody's travan is worth dropping the card for.) >Thanks, >Eugen Leitl -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
