On 11/30/05, John Summerfied <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
Matt Morgan wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a tape drive that meets these requirements?
>
> 1) easy to get working in Fedora Core 3 & 4
> 2) reliable
> 3) works fine with Amanda
> 4) stores 200+ Gb on a tape or single set of tapes
>
> If it's easy and obvious how to eject and insert tapes, that's a plus,
> since this is going to be in a location without any real techies.
>
> Thanks!
>
I would expect any SCSI drive to work. Choose your vendors and ask them:
in this market they're well aware of Linux. Even Dell.
Once you have some candidates, then ask here (and maybe nahant, where
they take their computing more seriously:-))
Thanks to John and Joel. I didn't realize how straightforward it is.