DAT tape drive compatibility with FreeBSD?

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 22 July 2003 12:14 +0300 Johan Paul <mailing-lists at johanpaul.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering what tape drives (DAT) people use with FreeBSD for
> backup? I was thinking of a HP Superstore DAT 40I. Any experiences with
> that? Has anyone got the One Button Disaster Recovery function working in
> FreeBSD?

HP DAT drives generally work ok with FreeBSD - we have a DAT40 [external] 
and DAT24 [external] on a box here, both work fine... They appear as 
standard SCSI tape drives...

The one-touch recovery button stuff, AFAIK won't work - it's dependant on 
HP drivers & software under windows etc...

Having seen the mess it made of a friends "one touch recovery" under 
Windows, I'm not too keen to see that working under Unix anyway :-)

-Kp