iomega tape drive

[Vu Pham]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:14 -0600, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> Iomega makes tape drives?  I don't see anything on their web site 
> saying they do.  Or is this their REV disk drive?  They have been 
> trying to position that as a tape drive alternative, but it's kind of 
> like a really big Zip drive.  As the REV capacity is 35GB, 70GB with 
> compression would seem right.

Yes, it is REV drive. I found two of them at Newegg; one with SATA
interface and the other SCSI. Both have capacity of 90Gb which is good
for my server.

Do you know if I can tar to this drive ?

Vu

> 
> At 01:11 PM 11/27/2006, Vu Pham wrote:
> 
> >Anyone tries the Iomega 32944 SATA tape drive under Linux ? I am looking
> >for a cheap tape drive solution under Linux. The capacity is about 70Gb.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Vu
> >
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