On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:54, Mathew Brown wrote: > Hi, > I couldn't find much information regarding LTO drives and support > besides the basic information provided by: > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Supported_Tape_Drives.html > > which shows that Bacula should work fine with LTO drives. However, as > we are still in the purchasing phase, I was worried that I might end up > buying an expensive LTO drive that is incompatible with Bacula, > especially as the section in the manual on finding out if a tape drive > is supported assumes that you've already acquired the tape drive. > Furthermore, the thread titled HP Ultirum and Bacula over at > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11077.htm >l by pedro moreno shows a rather negative experience with the HP Ultirum. > Is there anyone with a positive experience in regards to LTO drives and > Bacula? Which models would you recommend for use with Bacula? Thanks for > help.
I personally have an LTO-2 autochanger with two drives (Overland), and it works out of the box. 99 out 100 (very rough estimate) of our users have few or no problems with any modern tape drive. You have summarized the doc quite well. Basically without having your specific hardware, it would be very difficult for an OpenSource project to "guarantee" that any particular drive works. In the case of Pedro Moreno, I suspect his problem was related to hardware troubles (see below). Connecting modern, fast SCSI devices is pretty exacting, needing: a proper SCSI controller suitable for your drive, proper *short* cables, correct termination, and a good kernel drive (many Linux kernels have broken SCSI drivers). There are 16 zillion different types of SCSI adaptors/standards, mostly due to the fact that the speed keeps going up, if you get the wrong one for your drive, you are out of luck. The archives can probably give you a good idea of what kind of SCSI controller to get ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
