[CentOS] Using USB Tape drive on Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Mar 3 08:14:43 UTC 2010
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> I use a lot of tapes but never a USB,
me neither... all the DAT and better tape drives I've ever seen have
been SCSI (or FC at the high end). I wonder if that USB DAT72 actually
has a USB-SCSI chip in it, then the drive is on the SCSI... no,
this
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11883_div/11883_div.html
says its native USB, huh. elsewhere onn their site, they say its
compatible with RHEL 5.4 applications includinig native tar, cpio, and
no driver is required. they do have firmware upgrades for the drives,
and a diagnostic CD you can download.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=501426&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=63890&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4006
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