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Re: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Wilburn)
Mon Nov 25 20:54:32 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:17:34 -0500
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From: Gene Wilburn <njo@io.org>
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>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:24:00 -0500
>From: "James Jones" <jam@gsu.edu>
>Subject: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!
>
>I need a tape drive that works under Linux with as little pain as possible.
>
>Something at lease 1G or greater. I have fought and fought with a HP
>Colorado Tape drive for 3 weeks and still can't get it online.
>
>Any and all suggestions are welcome. I need to know somebody who actually
>can verify it works with little pain. Supposedly, the HP Colorado 1400
>works but it seems
>impossible to make it work. Whoever got it to work must be quite a hacker.
>I'm
>a novice and need something simple and reliable. I'm begging for
>suggestions from
>the linux community. Thanks in advance! :-)
James, I recently plugged in an HP SCSI DAT tape (2Gb) to the SCSI
controller on a RH4 Linux box and was able to read in some large tar files
from tape. It was seamless. My experiences with tape have always been best
when the devices were SCSI.
Cheers, Gene
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Gene Wilburn, Toronto, ON, Canada | njo@io.org
Northern Journey Online: http://www.io.org/~njo/
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