[Sunhelp] High Capacity Tape Drives

[Wolfgang Engelien]

I am also looking into high capacity tape drives. Want to
replace my DLT4000. The L280 smiles at me. Should I trust
this smile?

>Has anyone here had any luck with some of these newer high capacity tape
>drives?
>
>One in particular that looked good was the Compaq 50GB AIT drive - that's
>50 gigs on a single tape! More with compression turned on.
>
>It looks nice and the documentation says it's compatible with Solaris x86
>through the "cpqncr" driver (I believe). Unfortunately, that driver is not
>present on Solaris 8 for Sparc.
>
>Usually tape drives I've used have gone through the "st" driver. And this
>looks like a standard UltraWide SCSI single tape drive.
>
>Is there any reason why this wouldn't work with the normal "st" driver?
>
>Or does anyone have any suggestions for other AIT or DLT drives that may
>work with Solaris. I've kind of outgrown DAT/DDS.
>
>Cheers,
>
>George
>
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