Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:09:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: networx@indigo.ie (Michael Ryan) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP SureStore 2000 -- supported? Message-ID: <199606142009.NAA12834@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <31C14750.60D6@indigo.ie> from "Michael Ryan" at Jun 14, 96 12:04:48 pm
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Michael Ryan wrote:
>
> I'm about to buy a HP SureStore Tape 2000 *external* drive.
> Does anybody know if it'll work with FreeBSD 2.1 on a
> Gateway 2000 120MHz Pentium with an Adaptec 2940 PCI
> SCSI adapter?
>
> The drive is SCSI-2. The spec sheet says the internal version
> works with SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, etc. but the external
> version is not supported, according to the spec.
>
> Am I right in assuming it'll work, as it's a SCSI DAT tape
> drive?
this drive has been reported to work
Hewlett-Packard HP 1534A
The boot message identifier for this drive is "HP
HP35470A T503" type 1 removable SCSI 2" "Sequential-Access
density code 0x13, variable blocks".
This is a DDS-1 tape drive. DDS-1 is the original DAT
tape format.
Native capacity is 2GB when using 90m tapes.
Data transfer rate is 183kB/s.
The same mechanism is used in Hewlett-Packard's SureStore
2000i tape drive, C35470A DDS format DAT drive, C1534A DDS
format DAT drive and HP C1536A DDS format DAT drive.
you may want to talk to Gary Crutcher gcrutchr@nightflight.com
jmb
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