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