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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:04:53 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SDLT tape drives
Message-ID:  <20030409150453.GL30909@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030409123412.G33752-100000@fw.office.icom>
References:  <20030409123412.G33752-100000@fw.office.icom>

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In the last episode (Apr 09), Bogdan TARU said:
> I am considering acquiring an SDLT tape drive (160 uncompressed /
> 320GB compressed) with an Adaptec 29160, but don't know what could be
> the shortcomings of using it under freebsd. Anyone had any
> experiences?
> 
> A freebsd mailing list search resulted in only one result (and that
> one not really revealing much). SDLT drives are mentioned in the
> mt(1), but that doesn't say much either.

FreeBSD just sees it as a tape drive.  You can assume that pretty much
all SCSI tape and disk drives will work.  You don't have to
specifically ask about a particular model.

I had no problems using DLT autoloaders on our FreBSD servers.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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