Peter Svensson wrote:
>
> On 2 Apr 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Sorry for being offtopic, but does anyone have experience with the
> > (performance, reliability, Linux compatibility) of these devices?
> >
> > Seems to be the only affordable backup drives in their size range --
> > currently 25 GB actual.
>
> There is also the VXA drive from Ecrix which (at least in Sweden) is
> priced similar and with a similar tape size (33GB uncompressed). It works
> as advertised under Linux.
Hi, I have an OnStream DI-30 and I was discussing something
related to this with Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
"The linux IDE guy".
according to Andre, there is no support for this device in 2.2.14.
and "it works flawlessly" now. don't know which kernels "now" covers
though.
In my own experience :
reading and writing with one CPU is ok with 2.2.15pre15 and 2.3.51
reading with 2 CPUs with 2.2.15pre14 and 2.3.51 doesn't work
reading with 2 CPUs with 2.3.99pre3 is fine.
now, for the SCSI version of OnStream tape drives, Documentation/ide.txt
mentions that no support is currently available. I havent' try though,
and I don't know how updated this file is.
as far as realiability is concerned, I have written 2 tapes so far,
about 10Gigs on a 15 actual gig tape :
- I had 1 crc error on the first
- I had 3 read/write error on the second
please remember, this is an IDE tape drive. SCSI tape drives perform
better usually.
performance is as expected, no more no less.
Viet
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