tape drive flakiness

[Michael George]

I am using an Atto card in an XServer, if that helps.  We did have 
"success" with it, but that "success" requires that I reboot every 
week, apparently.

I'm building the new kernel now, maybe that will help but I'm not 
holding my breath...

-Michael

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 08:41  AM, Iain Stevenson wrote:
> Someone on the list has reported success with an Ecrix but my 
> experience with a tape drive was woeful.  You haven't mentioned the 
> machine you're using but the driver for the built-in scsi on older 
> Macs is a bit basic and does not do a soft reset.  Hence the only way 
> to be sure of a clean start is to power cycle the tape drive and then 
> reboot the machine.  This is clearly not great for a production 
> machine.
>
> The tape drive I used (Travan) was certified by the vendor as "linux 
> compatible" - regrettably this often seems to mean "i386 linux 
> compatible".