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Is Linux compatible with SCSI tape drives? If so, can you give some setup/install advice?

2010-12-06 20:04:00
Yes, well probably yes. What distro are you wanting to install/setup these tape drives in. We need specifics, are you using BSD, Red Hat / Cent OS, Ubuntu, etc. The commands very from distro to distro.
Itnetchap
2010-12-08 08:17:00
The latest Ubuntu 64 bit.
2010-12-09 14:00:00
Try this tutorial, see if this works for you:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/
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