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Ubuntu 9.04 : Supported Tape Drives

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What tape formats (e.g. DDS, DAT, AIT, SAIT, LTO) and drives will Ubuntu 9.04 support?

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Best Douglas Moyes (aragorn-stellimare) said : 		#1

Download the kernel source code using Synaptic (linux-source pacakge), or from kernel.org.. unpack the source code and check in the Documentation directory it'll provide information on what tape drives are supported.

Generally speaking, Linux supports all tape drives that use a common interface, as well as several older parallel port driven drives. All SCSI, SATA, and IDE/PATA tape drives should work, unless they require a non-standard control interface. I'd imagine the same to be true of USB drives, but I've never worked with those myself.

The physical tape format is irrelevant, the method the operating system uses to communicate to the tape drive is what matters.

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Brad M (mcclaren) said : 		#2

thanks