From 0f6517bb0fb9df006c4119030776ebc56781523b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Langille Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:36:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Let's reduce the number of "Is my tape drive supported" questions. --- docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex b/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex index 005ba405..1c702c01 100644 --- a/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex +++ b/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ \index[general]{Drives!Supported Tape } \index[general]{Supported Tape Drives } +Yes, Bacula supports your tape drive. Bacula does not directly access +hardware. If the tape drive is accessible from your operating system, +then it should just work with Bacula. If you can access your tape drive +from the command line, then so can Bacula. + Bacula uses standard operating system calls (read, write, ioctl) to interface to tape drives. As a consequence, it relies on having a correctly written OS tape driver. Bacula is known to work perfectly well @@ -72,6 +77,13 @@ unknown: \end{longtable} +\section{Don't see your drive?} + +If you do not see your tape drive listed above, go back and read the +first few paragraphs of this page. The list above contains only the +hardware that people have reported. If your OS can see the hardware, so +can Bacula. + There is a list of \ilink{supported autochangers}{Models} in the Supported Autochangers chapter of this document, where you will find other tape drives that work with Bacula. -- 2.39.5