On 7/19/06, Mathew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.html > 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 have recently received an HP LTO2 (Ultrium-448) with 1x8 Autoloader, and everything seems to be working just ok, including the autochanger. My server is a HP DL380 G3 (with a SCSI HBA type LSI22320-R, taken from an unused Sun server...), system is running Linux Debian (etch). So far the only hitch I found was the SCSI driver, which required a patch to avoid a forced timeout after 30 sec that was bad for autochanger operations. Apart of that, I have to say I'm happy with the Ultrium tape unit, almost worried that its setup went so smoothly :-) Cheers -- Maxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
