On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:09, Paul Sims wrote:
> Surely this is just a DAT (4/8Gb with DDS-2 tapes) drive? In which case
> it will happily work with Linux. Probably.
>
SUN have a habit of "Customising" the firmware in tape drives, disks
etc. however this is usually to stop non SUN sourced devices being used,
try booting a SUN from a Compaq branded drive!. Apple used to do the
same thing with disk drives i.e. their format program would only work on
an "Apple" drive.
Go for it I would say Linux is almost certain to work, come to think of
I have a SUN branded DDS3 drive and that works OK on Linux.
David Bottrill
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