Re: STT6201U Tape drive compatibility

On 16 Jan 2006 14:07:26 -0800, cbhargava staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> Is anyone out there using [a] STT6201U USB tape drive with Linux? Is
> the drive compatible with Linux?

USB tape drives are (still) sort of rare. However, there are a number
of references to USB tape devices in /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/drivers/usb/
.. That makes me think that if you have a recent kernel, you should be
able to plug in a USB tape device and have it work as a pseudo-SCSI
device, probably on /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 like normal SCSI tapes. I
didn't see any references to the model# you mentioned anywhere in the
2.6.12 source though.

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