PE 2850 and SCSI external tape

[Jens Dueholm Christensen]

I have exactly such a configuration - but with a Dell PowerVault 132T with a single LTO2 drive.

I have a PERC 5/i for the internal drives, a PERC 5/E for an attached MD1000 shelf and then a 39320A Ultra320 PCI-e (or is it -X) card for the tapedrive, since there is no external connectors apart from the PERC 5/E - and that can't be used.

Regards,
Jens Dueholm Christensen 
Business Process and Improvement, Rambøll Survey IT

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Andrea Visinoni
Sent: 16. april 2009 08:40
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: PE 2850 and SCSI external tape

Andrea Visinoni wrote:
> hi there,
> i've just bought an HP storageworks DAT72 external SCSI tape drive and i 
> wish to connect it to my DELL Poweredge 2850, i've 2 questions about that:
> 
> 1) My server got a PERC 4e/DC for SCSI RAID disks (docs says that i 
> cannot connect here my tape), and an onboard LSI controller not used.
> Can i connect my tape to one of the internal SCSI connector on the 
> backplane riser?
> Can something like this product allow me to do the trick?
> http://store.thescsistore.com/scsiulinhdb61.html
> My dell consulent said me i have to get ANOTHER controller just for the 
> tape, i don't want to pay hundred dollars for a 90 dollars refurbished 
> tape drive.
> 
> 2) I got debian stable on this server, which is the best straightforward 
> way to backup a bunch of directories? tar? or there is a best tool for 
> this job?
> Do i only need "st" module in the kernel?
> 
> Best regards
> Andrea

Help please!

Andrea

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