From: s0356514@HP-UX (H.H. Bergman) Subject: Re: Tape Drive (help please?) Date: 29 Sep 1992 20:34:22 GMT
[Just got a new account on a brand new machine -- fingers crossed]
leet@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brian D. Leet) writes:
: Sorry, I had trouble getting this out to the tape mailing group so I am
: posting instead. This is getting really frustrating, maybe because I don't
: know the first thign about tape drives :-).
:
: Hello,
: I have been experiencing a great deal of difficulty determining what sort of
: tape drive I need to get so that I will be able to do tape back-ups under
: linux. After a bit of research and reading it appears that only QIC-02 and
: QIC-36 drives are supported. I am finding that actually locating such a beast
Note that I am not supporting QIC-36 interfaces. They may just happen to work,
but I have no info about QIC-36.
: is remarkably difficult. Many manufacturers do not explicitly state what
: QIC is used. I know to stay away from "floppytape" drives but what about the
: various Wangtek drives? They all seem to be SCSI to me but I thought i read
: somewhere that they were supported. Would someone mind explaining?
I think Wangtek makes basically the same drives with just a different
interface option, either SCSI or QIC-02. If you wait a while, there *may*
[Drew?] appear an SCSI driver for Linux.
: On a more specific vein, are ARchive drives in general supported? In
: particular is the Archive VP402 controller card? What about the Archive
: 5580i drive? Thanks for any info. choosing a tape drive is becoming a real
Do you mean the SC402 card?
: chore.
Ever tried writing a driver for one? ;-) ;-)
: Brian
-Hennus Bergman