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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP SureStore DAT8 DDS-2 work with FreeBSD ? Please help. Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 18:52:36 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33855AD4.18A5@OntheNet.com.au> References: <864189734.25500@dejanews.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: dpunjabi@nyx.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41488 dpunjabi@nyx.net wrote: > > I am looking to buy an HP Surestore DAT8 DDS-2 DAT tape drive. It is > supposedly a successor to the HP Surestore 6000 external drives. > > I looked at HPs web site which has specs on this drive > (http://www.hp.com:80/tape/dat8.html), but it does'nt tell > if this one will work with FreeBSD. I also looked at FreeBSD's > hardware compatibility page, but it does not have this drive > listed since it is fairly new. FreeBSD cannot possibly list every SCSI disk and SCSI tape that will work with the OS. A 'modern' device which okeys the rules has a very high probability of working. > Anyone have this working with FreeBSD 2.2 ? Also, I am assuming > that this drive will be able to do backups on a small ethernet > LAN running freebsd machines. This should not be a problem... We 'rdump' a number of FreeBSD systems to DAT drives across the (switched) LAN. > > If you run this tape drive with freebsd, what kind of a SCSI card > do you use ? Any of the supported PCI cards should do the job. The NCR-based cards (810/825) are relatively cheap but work quite well! Tony