Hello,
Thank's for your advice: we have ordered a Seagate Hornet 8 EIDE.
In the meantime I have received the following from the 'tape_support'
of Seagate. I think it may be useful for those who look for a tape drive...
Yves.
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Yes, all of our current product line will work under the Linux OS.
We recommend the following configuration information for the Linux
operating system:
The drive should be configured as follows:
We recommend that you never Slave this tape unit to a Hard Drive. If
there is no other ATAPI/IDE device present then you can set the tape as
Master on the Primary. If there is a HD present then the tape needs to be
set as Master on the Secondary. If there is a device already on the
secondary such as a CD-ROM then you need to Slave the tape drive to the
CD-ROM. Make sure in the Computers BIOS you have the port set to NONE or
NOT INSTALLED and not to AUTOMATIC or USER.
Device names (dn) : ft0 for floppy based tape drives
ht0 for IDE/ATAPI based tape drives
st0 for SCSI based tape drives.
Try writing to the device using, tar -cvf /dev/(dn) /directory or
filename, or to view the files written to the tape, tar -tvf /dev/(dn), or
to extract files from tape, tar -xvf /dev/(dn) /directory or filename.
You may be able to find additional information at:
http://www.linuxtapecert.org/, http://www.ugu.com/ or for older floppy
interface tape drives: http://www.torque.net/ftape/. You can also contact
news or user groups on the web.
