ServRAID 5i and DLT

[Scott Long]

Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
>  > The ips driver has no mechanism for exporting SCSI devices like tape
> 
>> drives.  It's probably possible to examine something like the linux
>> driver and figure out how to make it work, but it likely requires
>> something in the range of 400-600 lines of code.
> 
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> Despite my little experience programming in C some day I would like to 
> contribute with this code to the community.. but I need to make this 
> tape works as soon as possible to replace another server with a hard 
> crashed tape, for this reason I'm running without backups. Witch adapter 
> would you recommend to work with this DLT tape on FreeBSD 5.3?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Alexandre

Any normal SCSI controller will work.  You can pick up fairly cheap LSI
and Adaptec controllers at major retailers and of course eBay.

Scott