Tape drive

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Nov 30 15:52:07 UTC 2005


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:-))




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