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standards to choose from.  So far I haven't found or hear anything that
leads me to lean towards one over another so I'll probably decide based
on density, speed and how quiet the drive is (since it's for use at
home).

It looks like in the DAT category, there are the following
standards/tape types (with the native capacity in parens):  DDS-1 (?),
DDS-2 (4GB), DDS-3 (12GB), DDS-4 (20GB).  So the DDS-4 DAT might be
large enough for what I'm planning to back up.  Not sure what the
transfer rates are.  (I see that Stay Online has some Sony DDS models.)

Anybody know if there are any gotchas with using tape drives under
Linux?  I haven't run across a supported tape drive list so I'm assuming
that all (most?) SCSI and IDE drives should just work.  I've seen
mention of some USB drives.  Besides being fairly slow, I'm guessing
from my previous forays into USB-land in Linux that support for these is
probably sketchy at best.

Mike

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Mike Broome
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