[ale] scsi tape drive recommendations

[vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)]

> On this note has anyone gotten the Jazz drive to work under linux?
> Is it treated just like a SCSI device (assuming you use SCSI).
> I've been thinking I want to get an extrenal unit and backup all my
> PC's and be relatively portable.
> Also 1 gig is a nice extra drive when you need it.
> Do the drives require SCSI drivers different than normal?  or do they
> look like any other 1 gig scsi drive?

I don't have an actual drive, just its baby brother the ZIP 100. Linux
treats it just like a scsi hard disk so I have to have partitions on it and
I can moun it and create filesystems and all that stuff. You don't need any
special scsi drivers under linux.

V
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