From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) Subject: Re: Is ARCHIVE 2150S tape drive ok under LINUX ? Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 06:55:08 GMT
In article <1nbb36INN5fp@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> soravi@athena.mit.edu (Ravi Sompalli) writes:
>Hi all,
>I am looking for a SCSI tape drive (~250MB). The Hardware FAQ (compat.list)
>lists only the Wangtek and Tandberg drives. However, Archive 2150S and
>Exabyte 8000 have been mentioned on the net. Can folks who have any
>drives not mentioned in the FAQ share their secret ? Or better, send their
>info to the new Hardware FAQ maintainer ? Anyway, I will collect all posts
>on this thread.
I have an Archive 2150S running off of an Adaptec 1540B (same as
1542B but without floppy controller). I've had no problems with it since
the support code for scsi tapes stabilized. I have no other SCSI devices so
I don't know how the 2150S interacts with other devices on the SCSI bus.
Bill Bogstad