Re: tape drive

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 02:54 PM 10/12/99 -0400, manhattan raw rutgers edu wrote:
>Can anybody recommend a high-capacity tape drive to go with linux system?
>I am looking for at least 10G without compression. Does redhat support
>seagate's Taperstor NS20 or TR-5 tape drive? Or is there any better
>choice. Price is not a problem.

Must be nice :)  Linux supports most SCSI devices and I would recommend
SCSI.  I have a ST0028NS (I believe) and it's OK.  I like that it has
hardware compression.  The tapes are quite expensive and, philosophically,
I would prefer a more expensive drive that uses cheaper tapes.  If up-front
money weren't an issue, I would have gone for DAT.  I definitely would not
get the TR-4 because the TR-5 aren't much more.
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