Tape drive

[Matt Morgan]

On 11/30/05, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Matt Morgan wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a tape drive that meets these requirements?
> >
> > 1) easy to get working in Fedora Core 3 & 4
> > 2) reliable
> > 3) works fine with Amanda
> > 4) stores 200+ Gb on a tape or single set of tapes
> >
> > If it's easy and obvious how to eject and insert tapes, that's a plus,
> > since this is going to be in a location without any real techies.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> I would expect any SCSI drive to work. Choose your vendors and ask them:
> in this market they're well aware of Linux. Even Dell.
>
> Once you have some candidates, then ask here (and maybe nahant, where
> they take their computing more seriously:-))

Thanks to John and Joel. I didn't realize how straightforward it is.