Re: Need information about DAT drives

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From: Wolfgang Schelongowski
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 00:00

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In <DvCCwC.AvG@bri.hp.com> aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) writes:

>Dr. Albert Hybl (hybl@umbc.edu) wrote:

>[snip]

>: Does the Linux kernel support a device driver for these DAT drives?
>: What Linux compatible software can be used for creating backups?

>Hmm. Interesting point. The answer here is generally yes. However, I'd
>qualify it by saying we don't support Linux currently and the last
>time I looked at the scsi tape driver, it was not exactly 'wired for DAT'..
>That said, there shouldn't be anything stopping you... how it does the
>DC on/off via device file I'd need to RTFS, which is one of the bits that
>probably needs tweaking..

You can do that and a few other things with mt-dds from
dds2tar package (my version: dds2tar-2.4.12). 
-- 
Wolfgang Schelongowski  ws@xivic.ruhr.de

One person with a good diff can change the world. 
	/r$

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