On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:05:50AM +0100, David Bottrill wrote:
> 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.
Yep, that's what it is. The "Probably" bit was what made me stop too...
> 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.
I had a feeling that Sun were likely to do this kind of thing. The thing
that most concerns me is whether if the drive goes down, can the tapes
be read on another drive eg an HP DDS-2 drive. Have Sun slightly altered
the format that the data is put down on the tape, making it incompatible
with anyone else's tape drives?
> 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.
That's reassuring, thanks for your help,
Matthew
--Matthew Sackman Nottingham England
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