[CentOS] tape drive

[Rainer Duffner]

nate schrieb:
> Pitshou Asingalembi wrote:
>   
>> the hp smart array 6400 controller.
>>     
>
> It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a
> raid controller. 

Exactly.
Buy a dedicated SCSI-card for that.
Tapes sometimes produce "interesting" events on the SCSI-bus (you might 
have got to switch it on/off while the server is online).
You don't want to have your disk-drives hanging on the same SCSI-bus at 
that point.


Rainer