On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Daniel Folkinshteyn wrote:
> hey,
> i never had anything to do with tape drives before, so i need advice.
> i am looking for a good tape drive to do regular backups on a linux 6.0
> system.
> would anyone be kind enough to give me a recommendation as to the make and
> model of a good reliable (and preferably moderately priced) SCSI tape
> drive?
> thanks a lot.
> -df
>
I recently looked into this matter. The price of a tape drive is around
$200 for a IDE Travan tape driver. For DAT tape drive (only SCSI), it'll
be about $300 dollars. You should also consider the price of the media
when you buy your driver. A Traven catridge (4/8 G) costs about $30 while
and DAT tape of similar size is below $10.
The support for tape drive is in the kernel. Both SCSI and IDE (ATAPI)
should be easily supported. The only one that I may have heard problems
about is Sony Superstation - I'm not absolutely positive about this.
Since you ask about tape, you probably have known about the advantages
and disadvantages of tape over CDRW. Rewritable CD is fast and cheap but
it has only 650M capacity. Tape is (very) slow but each one can easily
hold half or entire of your harddisk.
And if you're going for CDRW on an IDE system, please be careful about
the following. You have to run the scsi-ide module to emulate one of the
IDE bus as a SCSI bus. You'll need some tricks to use 4 IDE devices on
your computer.
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