yeah, some tape drives just don't not play nice with other devices on
the bus, and it's a question of performance....
Whist were talking about tape drives, are there any linux hacks that you
can 'mount' a(very slow) file system from a tape (read only perhaps).
I've seen it down once on NT with something called tape disk, and the
company using it was storing sattelite images (huge) , but it mounted as
a filesystem, so they could still use the normal software tools. I need
somewhere to put my mp3's ;-).
If NT can do it, I'm sure linux will have a better solution.
Laters,
Lee
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:09, Robert Davies wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 23:07, you wrote:
>
> > On a slightly different note, it's annoying to see fast scsi drives,
> > placed on the same bus as a slow tape drive, thus slowing the whole
> > chain down :-( (you see it mainly in pc 'servers' designed by bodge it
> > and scarper merchants, I will mention no names...)
>
> If it's using synchronous SCSI and the drive interface doesn't force whole
> bus into backwards compatability, then the system wouldn't be affected.
>
> Though I do like to keep tape drives on a seperate SCSI card, rather than in
> same bus as a RAID array.
>
> Rob
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