Thanks Jon,
that gives me some direction....
Gary



Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:36:49PM -0700, G. Artim wrote:

Hi All,

I'm new to this listserv and Amanda. Thanks for any help in advance.
My Question: does Amanda support the Overland loaderxpress line,
specifically the one with the SDLT 320 drive?

Amanda does not "support" drives or changers in the sense you probably mean.
It contains no code that is specific to the hardware.  Instead, it depends
on other programs, eg mt and mtx, to do the manipulation.  Well, there is one,
chg-scsi if you use it.  But if I understand that one, it issues "generic"
scsi calls.

So the question is either:
 - does it work with mt and mtx on your system
 - are there alternatives (like chg-scsi) that may work
 - have others reported success using amanda with your drive combination

The mtx.sourceforge.net site has a compatibility list.

As to amanda, in April a survey was conducted with 72 people responding.
Here is the summary of the responses to the changer/library questions:



A total of 30 of 72 respondents reported having a tape changer or library.
Several of those reported having more than one changer/library.
Surprisingly, the 30 respondents reported 26 distinct models of changer/library.

The table below shows the models reported by those 28 respondents.
Where multiple reports for the same model existed, only one entry is show.
Where the multiple reports showed different configuration (eg. 1 drive
vs 2 drive), only the larger configuration is shown.


   BRAND               MODEL                # of     # of       total
                                           drives    tapes     capacity
   ADIC                ??                    1         4         200 GB
   ADIC                FastStor DLT          1         7         245 GB
   Compaq              MSL5126               1        25        4000 GB
   Compaq              SSL2020               2        20        1000 GB
   Dell                Powervault 122T       1         8         320 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     A4845A                5       588       20000 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     C1557A                1         6          72 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     ESL9595               2       595       70000 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     MSL5026S2             2        26        4160 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     SureStore 6x40        1         6         120 GB
   Hewlett-Packard     SureStore 6x24        1         6          72 GB
   Overland Data       LXB 4120              1        10         150 GB
   Overland Data       Library Pro           1        19        1900 GB
   Overland Data       LoaderXpress          1        15         525 GB
   Qualstar            6220                  2        20         700 GB
   Qualstar            TLS-4200              2        20        2000 GB
   Quantum             DLT7000 2560          1         8         320 GB
   Segate              CTL-96/4586N          1         4          14 GB
   Sony                TSL-9000              1         8          96 GB
   SpectraLogic        Bullfrog 10000        3        40       10000 GB
   SpectraLogic        Treefrog 2000         1        15         750 GB
   StorageTek          Timberwolf 9730       2        30        1000 GB
   Straightline        Harrier/830           2        30        1500 GB
   Sun                 L20                   2        20        2000 GB
   Sun                 L40                   2        40        1600 GB
   Sun                 Storedge L9           1         9         360 GB