Re: Linux tape drivers

2007-04-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (cc's added, with permission) > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:08:37 +0200 > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am the project manager for Bacula, an Open Source netwo

Re: Linux tape drivers

2007-04-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:00, Willem Riede wrote: > > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Hello Willem, > > Osst supports both scsi and ide models of the Onstream dirves it is > designed for. > It uses ide-scsi for the ide model. In the past, I did look at

Re: Linux tape drivers

2007-04-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:55, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative, > > ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobod

Re: Linux tape drivers

2007-04-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:46, Kai Makisara wrote: ... > > > > > > Issues for discussion: > > > > > > 1. Bugs: > > >a. Other than the OSST driver, apparently no IDE/SATA tape driver works > > >with Bacula. I don't have such a drive (working on it), but from user > > >repo

Re: Linux tape drivers

2007-04-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 23:54, Kai Makisara wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:46, Kai Makisara wrote: > ... > > > > > c. There is a real lack of information about any error condition > > > > >