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32 Gig Tape- Auto-Loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Wills (Global 2000))
Wed Jan 29 17:42:12 1997
To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: Adam Wills (Global 2000) <sysadmin@shell.global2000.net>
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:39:19 GMT
I just installed a "no-name" brand 32 gig DAT backup. It simply
is a 4 gig DAT (8 gig with crompression) with a 4 cartridge loader.
I need to know, is there any software out there that will let linux
auto-select which tape to use in the armature (right now i have to manually
walk over each morning to press "select" on the led pannel to go from tape
to tape, otherwise it keeps writing over the same data. The tapedrive IS
smart enough to auto incremenent TO the next tape if you exceed that 4 gig
limit on the first tape, and keeps going tape to tape to tape, until you
finish or hit 32 gigs- but what i backup is about 2 gigs daily, and then i
want to auto-select from tape to tape so i have my own "rotation" of tapes
being done automatically..
Any ideas? I know, you want to know the brand name (Sorry), bought it via
www.corpsys.com, for about 600 when it was on sale- it has NO name, but its
scsi-2, and works great. Just needs a tweak to do software tape selection
in linux. (there was no dos software included either for that price so i
dunno if such software exists for it).
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Adam Wills Global 2000 Communications
Director of Networking Systems 1840 Western Ave.
sysadmin@global2000.net Albany, NY, 12203
http://www.global2000.net (518) 452-1465
