Yves Boisjoly (root@Armada4131T.Labo.Montreal.Sono)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bradley Rosser wrote:
BR >Hi. I'm thinking of buying a parallel-port tape drive and
BR >am considering the HP Colorado 14Gb external drive. I've
BR >checked dejanews, the Linux parallel-port archive and some
BR >other web sites and it looks like this device should work on
BR >Linux, but being paranoid I thought I'd check a few things
BR >first. I've seen notes about the Colorado 5Gb and 8Gb drives
BR >in this mailing list's archive, but nothing about the 14Gb
BR >(it must be relatively new?).
BR >
BR >Would anyone be able to help me by answering any of the
BR >following questions -
BR >
BR >o does anyone have a Colorado 14Gb external tape drive
BR > working (or not working) under Linux?
BR >
BR >o at this point I gather than only the 'rewind' mt function
BR > works for parallel-port tape drives? Is there any way
BR > one can 'append' backup volumes to a HP Colorado tape?
BR > (i.e. 'mt eod' to the last filemark, etc). Or is it the
BR > case at the moment that tapes can be used only for one
BR > volume at any time?
BR >
BR >o I've seen mention of 'Travan' in association with the HP
BR > Colorado drives, or the drives written as 'HP T8000'
BR > (for the 8Gb drive). What is this 'Travan', please? I'm
BR > worried I might buy the wrong drive!
BR >
BR >Advice on the above points or comments in general on the HP
BR >Colorado lines of parallel-port tape drives would be much
BR >appreciated.
BR >
I use an 7GB Tape drive Travan on a Linux station but on a SCSI board! I't
works very well...
I also use a SyQuest EZ230 on a parallel port on another portable
computer...with very good result...
My concern is the time you will have to wait in order to make a backup on a
14GB tape by the parallel port!!!
Are you sure to will have that time? ;-)
BR >Thanks,
BR >
BR >
BR >
BR >Brad Rosser
BR >b_rosser@yahoo.com
BR >
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