27 Jan
2006
27 Jan
'06
5:23 a.m.
At 10:21 PM 1/26/2006, Richard wrote:
Its large and heavy :-). I don't know how many
tapes it holds, I'd
guess about 50-60. I can find out tomorrow. This is a huge beast
(tape loading mechanism works fine, 2 drives dead, 1 drive working)
that noone wants. A service contract on it is prohibitive. Noone at
work wants to haul it out for scrap.
I'd love to hear about classic support for such a beast.
I would imagine there is a Linux way to handle it, because
there always is. But when I bought a similar DDS-3 beast library
(50+ tapes, four drives) (for $25 or so) I found that contemporary
Windows support was expensive - the backup software folks wanted you to
buy separate server-class-price licenses for each internal drive.
- John