[96734] in RedHat Linux List
Re: good tape backup solution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Thu Oct 29 01:46:17 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
To: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:52:12 -0800
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, you wrote:
>I'm not one to ask about Adaptec products, had bad luck with them
>and stopped using them a few years back. I am all Mylex now, however
>they make good drives as long as Linux has the driver for your board.
Well, I finally got the HW I wanted -- the pc connection people
goofed, and sent the stuff UPS Ground instead of next day
air. :(
I haven't gotten around to installing everything (yet) but even though
adaptec doesn't support Linux per se, they have a bunch of real
neat photo CD images on the CD ROM they send along with the card. Kinda
strange to see that, but at least it's a welcome change from having
AOL on everything :).
>DDS is just fine, I have been using them for about 10 years now and
>only have had a couple of problems and usually that was from a
>operator error or forgot to clean the heads, a very important thing
About how often should one do so?
One thing I'll say about this HP -- remarkably complete, even comes with
rails, mounting kit, a tape cartridge, plus a cleaning cassette. :)
Right now, I'm rebuilding the kernel for SCSI support. One strange thing
I noticed is that I did a quick make xconfig and recompile before,
sticking the compiled kernel on a boot floppy. When I rebooted, the
kernel said "scsi: 0 hosts", which lets me know that the SCSI support
is there. On the other hand, and this I found a bit strange, is that
X could no longer get started. I got a "cannot connect to socket"
type error.
When I rebooted with the kernel I was using, X started up just fine.
I'm hoping that this was just a wierd glitch and a symptom of an
improperly (?) built kernel -- but as I understand things, X is
wholly separate from the kernel, and there is no support per se for
it in the kernel.
For reference, I'm running 2.0.34, Accelerated X, and it's generally
Redhat 5.0 here.
>with most tape drives so don't forget to get a cleaning
tape for your >drive.
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>Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting
>mailto:ray@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
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