Topic: Iomega usb REV drive works with SME7rc3

[jester]

I've seen questions beeing asked about this and a can't recall seeing answers, so for anyone who wants to know:

I can confirm that an Iomega usb REV drive is recognised by SME7rc3. On my server i can mount it from /dev/scd0 (there also is an additional /media/cdrom1) and i'm able to write/read to it. The UDF format of the disks is supported on both Lin and Win (Don't know on OS X, will test that too), so files written with SME can be read on a Win system and vice-versa.

Next thing is testing if it works with the backup2 contrib.


jester.

[dsemuk]

Thanks for posting this info Jester, alway useful to have bits of info like this on the forums.

But I bet someone still asks will SMEServer7 work with my Iomega Rev drive

Dave

[bcdaus]

Can confirm it works well with backup2 in SME7rc3 after you create a mount point in fstab.

Bill.

[aznetplus]

I can also confirm that the Iomega USB REV drive in fact works.
I'm using the following:
SME Server release 7.2
Linux sme-test 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL #1

I've connected the drive via usb, and received the following message in the 'dmesg' from the server (about the drive)
usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using address 3
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Iomega    Model: RRD               Rev: 062B
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x caddy
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3

After checking out /etc/fstab I found the following new line.
/dev/scd0               /media/cdrom1           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

I then modified it to read /media/tape, and moved the /media/cdrom1 dir to /media/tape.
then issued the command, mount /media/tape. And low and behold, there it was.
Be sure  and unmount the device when it's not in use (just good practice)

I then setup the job in backup2 using the usb option and the correct new mount point.

It works wonderfully without problem, Hopefully this information will be helpful to someone else with the same issue.

Thanks