scsi tape drives

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon Mar 27 20:11:34 UTC 2006


> 
> According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at
> getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system.
> 
> This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably assume
> that I can run this machine via a FreeBSD system and it will work?
> 
> I am aware that I might have issues with the software that will
> interface to this drive (right now we are looking at Bacula), but
> right now I want to make sure that there are no issues at the
> hardware-OS level.

I have not used an autoloader, but have used the LTO drives on
a SCSI controller and they work fine - just like a real tape drive.

////jerry

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