 | | | Subject: Tape handling in Linux | Subject: Tape handling in Linux 2003-08-21 - By Becca Putman
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Hi, all!
Yet another Linux newbie... having found that Linux has been able to
identify and install software for everything in my system, I thought I'd
try something exotic. I purchased an old Digital (DEC) TZ87 tape drive
and an Adaptec AHA-2940 (See http://AHA-2940.ora-code.com) SCSI adapter (this is the SCSI-2 (See http://CSI-2.ora-code.com) adapter with
only 50-pin connectors; not a wide or fast/wide)
RedHat found my scsi adapter and installed it. It even sees my TZ87,
but I don't think a driver has been installed for it. My hardware
browser says:
Selected Device: Dec TZ87 (C)DEC
Manufacturer: Unknown
Driver: none or built-in
Device: /dev/st
According to the info I've seen, this drive is identical to a Quantum
DLT2000. My guess is Quantum went to Digital and had them made for
them.
1) Do I need a driver, and where would I get it?
2) Is it possible to read and download a tape generated by OpenVMS on
such a drive? How?
3) Once I'm past that, I intend to use the drive for backups. It is
certainly capable of backing up my whole system currently (the tape
holds up to 20GB, my IDE drive is only 15GB.) I think I can figure that
out with something like vdump... but I can always use suggestions!
Thanks very much to everyone :)
Becca
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