[ale] scsi tape drive recommendations

[Zot O'Connor]

In a respionse I got abut the jazz drive earlier.....

Perhaps this will help?  If not, call me.


Vernard Martin wrote:
> 
> > On this note has anyone gotten the Jazz drive to work under linux?
> > Is it treated just like a SCSI device (assuming you use SCSI).
> > I've been thinking I want to get an extrenal unit and backup all my
> > PC's and be relatively portable.
> > Also 1 gig is a nice extra drive when you need it.
> > Do the drives require SCSI drivers different than normal?  or do they
> > look like any other 1 gig scsi drive?
> 
> I don't have an actual drive, just its baby brother the ZIP 100. Linux
> treats it just like a scsi hard disk so I have to have partitions on it and
> I can moun it and create filesystems and all that stuff. You don't need any
> special scsi drivers under linux.
> 
> V
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> Vernard Martin
> (vernard.martin at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/vernard/
> College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

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