On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:48, Greg Cockburn wrote:
> Fall? It is Autumn for me too. (New Zealander living in Australia)
>
> Yeah I saw your posts in the archives Richard and was trying all those
> suggestions. Looks like the best idea is to sell it on e-bay.
>
> Anyone got a recommendation for a "good cheap drive"?
I recommend going for a DLT or better. You won't regret it. DLTs are
expensive, but Quantum has recently (October) released some new drives that
are priced at under $1000.
>
> This is for home, I got this one cheap (aka free). I would love LTO2 (what
> I use at work) but is probably a bit out of my budget.
>
> Thanks everyone, even though it looks like I won't be using this drive.
>
> Greg.
>
> On 11/28/05, richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > > has anyone actually got one of these to work with bacula? This is a
> > > drive out of a Dell Machine (no idea what), and the drive was hardly
> > > used.
> > > This is an ATAPI model, set to slave, with no other devices on the IDE
> > > controller.
> > > I have wasted many hours now trying to get this drive to work with
> > > bacula, without success.
> >
> > I spent many hours this autumn ("Fall" to you!) trying to get an
> > STT20000A to work - I think it's a very similar drive, fairly sure it
> > too came from a Dell. You may see the various messages in the archive,
> > last bits around 18th November I think.
> >
> > I couldn't even get tar to work properly till I disabled DMA using
> > hdparm (SuSE had automatically set it on), after that I upgraded to the
> > latest version (1.38.1 then) and started from the "OnStream" config.
> >
> > I experimented with a range of block sizes ("mt /dev/nst0 status"
> > reports 512 bytes but that didn't help either. Also Kern suggested a
> > switch for an ioctrl (can't remember the details, will be in the archive
> > though).
> >
> > I kept getting errors similar to those you report and have now abandoned
> > the drive - will probably sell on ebay after Christmas!
> >
> > I am considering trying the Iomega Rev (when funds permit!) and keen to
> > use bacula with it - anyone had any experience of this drive?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Richard.
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Best regards,
Kern
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