[NCLUG] IDE(ATAPI?) tape drives
Quent
quent at pobox.com
Sun Mar 25 11:41:44 MST 2001
I've been using a Seagate 20Gb Travan tape drive with good results.
The disks on the server are SCSI and the tape drive is IDE. The
media isn't cheap though; it's about $40 a tape. The "ide-tape"
module works well with my 2.2.16 kernel; haven't tried
it under 2.4 yet.
Quent
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:59:11AM +0000, dobbster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed SCSI tape drives in Linux, but never IDE. Does anyone
> have any suggestions for decent (internal) IDE drives currently on the
> market? Perhaps a Travan drive of some sort? (I haven't kept up on the
> technology...)
>
> It doesn't have to be fancy. I'd like it to have at least 20 GB
> capacity and (obviously) function in Linux. I want to send gzipped tars
> to it. I'd prefer something cheap, with cheap media.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark (dobbster at dobbster.com)
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