I have added the ieee1394.o ohci1394.o pcilynx.o and sbp.o drivers to the add-ons from whence they will reach the mirror soon. They seem to work find with the 2.0.103 kernel.
I got a couple of external 120gig hard drives, which, with enclosure, powersupply, usb and firewire, were about $200 each. The firewire controller cards are cheap. I figure that given the cost of AIT, LTO, SDLT, etc., that you can have it cheaper and faster this way... That is, 20 firewire/usb hard drives + a card (even assuming you get all of them with their own enclosures/cables/powersupplies) is maybe $4050, maybe closer to $3500 if you get some bare drives. 20 100GB Ultrium cartridges and an LTO drive than can write them is maybe $5000, 20 100GB AIT cartridges and an AIT3 drive that can write them is maybe $5000, 20 100GB SDLT cartridges and an SDLT drive that can write them is maybe $5000. So, if you compare 50 or 100 tapes and a drive, maybe it is cheaper. If you are only going to cycle 10 or 20 tapes, you are better with a stack of external firewire or usb drives. And that is *without* factoring in that a hard drive might be faster or more convenient... -Tom
