[ILUG] Onstream Tape Backup Drives

[Niall O Broin]

John Ronan asked

> Anyone using one of these beasties with Linux?

No, nor will anyone be for the moment. Although the devices use SCSI at an
electrical level, they are not SCSI devices - they rely a lot on intelligence
in the driver software - can you spell WinTapeDrive ? Apparently the up and
coming new model (35GB/70GB) will actually be a SCSI tape drive. There is
somebody working on a Linux driver for the current models but I don't know
what's the state of this driver. 



Kindest regards,


Niall  O Broin		

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