Re: FW: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Ben> First I tried to surf to www.debian.org and it is down (again?). Is
Ben> it off line, temporarily down, or moved?
Temporarily down, I presume. Try again later.
Ben> Second, I still haven't purchased my P-150 yet, but when I do I need
Ben> to buy a tape drive. I plan on getting a machine with EIDE on
Ben> motherboard and I need to know which tape drives Debian supports.
Have a look at the Ftape-HOWTO, at any sunsite mirror in the doc/HOWTO
directory. I use one of these Connor C250MQ QIC-80 tapes which store about
170 MB compressed on one (extended) tape. Used to be 120 MB. Newer tapes
drives go up to 400 MB compressed, I think.
For your quick reference, here is section 5.1 of the Ftape-HOWTO:
5.1. Supported tape drives
All drives that are both QIC-117 compatible and one of the QIC-40, 80,
3010, and 3020 standards should work. QIC-WIDE and Travan drives are
also supported (TR-1 is just QIC-80 with 8mm tapes, while TR-2 and
TR-3 is a.k.a QIC-3010 and 3020 respectively).
Currently, the list of drives that are known to work with ftape is:
7 Alloy Retriever 250
7 Archive 5580i / XL9250i
7 Colorado DJ-10 / DJ-20 (aka: Jumbo 120 / Jumbo 250)
7 Colorado 1400
7 HP Colorado T1000
7 Conner C250MQ(T), TSM420R, TSM850R, TST800R, TST3200R
7 Escom / Archive (Hornet) 31250Q
7 Irwin 80SX / Insight 80Mb
7 Iomega 250
7 Iomega Ditto Tape Insider 420, 1700, 3200
7 Mountain FS8000
7 Reveal TB1400
7 Summit SE 150 / SE 250
7 Tallgrass FS300 (needs a tiny hack to work with AHA1542B)
7 Memorex tape drive backup system
7 Wangtek 3040F, 3080F
You can always check out the newest list of drives that are recognised
by ftape, by looking in the file vendors.h in the ftape distribution.
Although I do not want to endorse one drive type over another, I want
to mention that the Colorado DJ-20 drive is rather noisy, when
compared to, say, a Conner C250MQ drive ('tis said that the Colorado
is 5-10 times as noisy as the Conner drive. I can't tell for sure, but
I have a Colorado, and it is quite noisy).
If you have a Tallgrass FS300 and an AHA1542B, you need to increase
the bus-on / bus-off time of the 1542B. Antti Virjo
(<klanvi@uta.fi>), says that changing CMD_BUSON_TIME to 4 and
CMD_BUSOFF_CMD to 12 in linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c will do the
trick.
NOTE: If you have a drive that works fine, but it is not listed here,
please send a mail to the HOWTO maintainer (<khp@pip.dknet.dk>).
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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