-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sebastiaan Veldhuisen wrote: > On ma, 2007-04-02 at 17:20 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 02 April 2007 13:27, Sebastiaan Veldhuisen wrote: >>> Hmmzz, >>> >>> Houston we have a problem. This is a SATA drive so hooking it up to a >>> SCSI HBA is impossible. >>> >>> If i run the diagnostic tests of the Quantum DLT Sage Talk, read and >>> write actions are working perfectly. If the drivers was bad, this should >>> fail also. >> If the diagnostic was written by a disk jockey, he may have overlooked the >> subtleties of tape drives. There is a whole lot more to a tape driver than >> read and write actions. > > You're right. My conclusion is incorrect. >>> I guess that Bacula only supports SCSI tape drives? >> Sorry but you guess wrong. > > I think you misunderstand me. I know Bacula can handle other devices > quite well. My statement was that for tape drives, only SCSI types are > working reliable on Linux with Bacula (can't say anything about > Windows).
That's still not really correct. Bacula can only do that which the hardware drivers allow it to do. If there is something fundamentally broken in the driver, any piece of software that does what Bacula was doing should fail identically. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEU8Zmb+gadEcsb4RAjXJAJ4vRLpl5AXykSlnpZmRPTfKu/haKgCcCHry yCB0LRogJBxCj7y5uFZktsA= =e6UK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
