You see- this why I dropped the notion of supporting the earlier unit- if
there's one with a real SCSI i/f, why bother? I mean, yes, it'll cost more,
but my take on that is "Don't get cheap on your backups".
On 5 Mar 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Alan Batie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've
> > checked the archives because it don't work.
>
> Depends on the drive. If you got an Echo drive (SCxx), you're right.
> The ADR drives--yes, they all use ADR tape technology, but confusingly
> there's also a model line called "ADR"--on the other hand, are
> ordinary SCSI drives, according to the OnStream representative I
> talked to at CeBIT. For instance, they're certified to work with
> the plain Linux SCSI tape driver.
>
> A few days ago I asked whether anybody's running an ADR50 successfully
> off a FreeBSD box but received no response. Actually I'm not sure
> the ADR50 is in the stores yet.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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