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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Duane Alleman on May 19, 2003, 07:22:01 PM
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Does anyone know if the Dell Tape drives are supported under SME 5.6? It is a PowerVault 100T, IDE, TR5, 10GB. They offer Linux software for it, but do you think I wil need the software or can I do basic backups via SME with no extra software needed? Tahnks in advance for your help!
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Duane:
Do you know anything about if the controller is required with the Dell Tape Drives? I noticed when looking at the servers there is an option for the controller.
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Here is the info from the Dell site:
No controller (Cheapest at $199) with linux software it is $299
PowerVault 100T TR-5 An economical tape backup drive designed to be cost-effective and deliver backup capacities up to 20GB1 with throughputs up to 1 MB/sec. Travan tape drives use IDE controllers to provide backup solutions for PowerEdge SC servers. PowerVault Travan drives can be purchased with optional Yosemite TapewareTM , Tape Backup Software which provides data compression, disaster recovery and simplified backup scheduling
with controller (expensive at $699)
PowerVault 110T DLT VS80 Based on Digital Linear Tape (DLT) technology, the DLT VS80 tape drive is a half-high, reliable tape drive delivering up to 80GB1 of capacity at up to 6MB/sec1. The DLT VS80 tape drive is ideal for rack-dense PowerEdge server backup.
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There's two different drives involved here.
The TRAVAN (inc tr5) which is in essentials QIC usually works OK with flexbackup under e-smith (we have found one machine that just won't work, but usually it does).
DLT/SCSI is a different thing altogether... not tried it so no comment.
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I have used Dell's VS80 tape drive and their DDS-4 drive. Both SCSI and hooked up to the internal SCSI adapter. I use the RAID card for the hard drives.