On Monday 02 April 2007 22:35, Michel Meyers wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 02 April 2007 19:40, Sebastiaan Veldhuisen wrote: > >> On ma, 2007-04-02 at 17:20 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>> On Monday 02 April 2007 13:27, Sebastiaan Veldhuisen wrote: > >> I think you misunderstand me. I know Bacula can handle other devices > >> quite well. My statement was that for tape drives, only SCSI types are > >> working reliable on Linux with Bacula (can't say anything about > >> Windows). > > > > It is not that simple. Bacula does work with some non-SCSI drives, but the > > only ones I know of are Windows drivers (just confirmed by Robert) and in the > > Bacula DID work very well with my old OnStream DI-30 (IDE) drive but > initially it took a lot of work and the help of both Kern and Willem, > the osst driver developer, to get it to run. With OnStream gone > bankrupt, their proprietary tape format has pretty much disappeared and > hence the drives I have have become useless (can't get any tapes for > them any more).
Yes, this is correct. There are two or three developers I have worked with, and the OSST driver developer (Willem) was one of them. It took us quite a lot of going back and forth to make it work, but he was very determined and succeeded. > > Your best bet really is to get the driver developers involved. I've thought about this (IDE/ATA/SATA tape drivers) and will do my best to put a bit of pression on the kernel contacts I know to try to resolve some (all) of these issues. In the mean time, if anyone has an SATA tape drive, please consider sending it to me. I cannot even think of working on this, other than pointing developers to the correct documentation, without a tape drive on hand so that I can pinpoint the problems for the developers. Regards, Kern > > Greetings, > Michel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
