Does anyone have any suggestions for a moderately-priced USB backup solution? I'd like something with removable cartridges (I have three machines to back up, and would like each one on a separate cartridge) and which can hold around 20GB per cartridge.
The Seagate Travan 20GB USB tape drive is the perfect solution, except that it doesn't seem to be Linux-compatible. (It seems that it has a Freecom USB controller which is causing problems: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdv.php3?id=445) More on the trials with that drive can be found at the end of the message, in case anyone can offer a fix. Thanks for any recommendations. As for the Seagate drive, I'm running RH 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7). There is an option in the kernel configuration for Freecom USB/ATAPI bridge support, but it doesn't seem to help. With both the out-of-the-box kernel and a recompiled version (making sure that option is set), I can get the drive detected with a manual 'insmod usb-storage' - it takes about 5 minutes to complete, but once it is done, /proc/scsi/scsi shows: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Seagate Model: STT20000A Rev: 8A51 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (Interestingly, the model number on this particular drive is STT6201U-R; from the model numbers, it seems like it is being recognized as a generic internal TR-5 ATAPI drive - STT20000A doesn't seem to exist as a model number, but STT22000A is the 20GB internal TR-5 ATAPI drive.) Trying to access the drive (e.g. 'mt -f /dev/st0 status') results in error messages: Oct 31 11:37:56 lumini kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request Oct 31 11:37:56 lumini kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code It looks to me like the driver isn't talking to the drive in a way it understands. If anybody knows of a way to fix this, I'd be grateful. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stina Bridgeman Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colgate University http://cs.colgate.edu/faculty/stina/ Hamilton, NY 13346 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
