On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:39:04 +0200 (CEST) Havard Eidnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...] I recall seeing a lot of very cheap fibre channel > > drives when I looked, they could be problematic because you > > need a FC hba and fibre to make them go and I don't think > > NetBSD has any FC drivers. > > Some of the cards supported by the mpt(4) driver have FC > interfaces, listed in the man page are 1 and 2Gbit/s cards. > I've no practical experience with the combination of tapes and > FC, though. Same with the isp driver, it supports a few FC cards. No clue about speeds and I never used FC myself, the last tape drive I used was a DDS2 streamer, back when you could still buy DAT cartridges at the computer store. Plain old SCSI or SAS is probably the least problematic solution. have fun Michael
