On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:50:04PM -0800, Doug Sampson wrote: > Does anyone have had positive or negative experience using these USB-based > DAT tape drives? Specifically, I am looking at the HP (Hewlett-Packard) > StorageWorks Q1581SB DAT 160 Tape Drive. If there are other branded USB > 2.0-based tape drives (i.e. Quantum) that you've used with little or no > problems, I would be interested in knowing about these.
Apparently the umass driver supports at least some models, they are reported as sa(4) devices; see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/104550.html I don't know if the speed problems in abovementioned message still exist. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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