BackupEDGE does far more than just read from and write to a tape drive. It can detect and use the advanced capabilities of SCSI, ATAPI, SATA, and USB devices It also has the most comprehensive support in the industry for CD, DVD and RRD (REV) devices.
Our clients have used BackupEDGE with devices of all types, especially those with tape drives (e.g., QIC, DDS, AIT, DLT, LTO, 8mm and Travan formats). All of the devices listed below have been tested in our own compatibility lab.
- Tape Drives
- Removable Rigid Disk (RRD) Devices
- CD-R/RW Writers
- DVD / CD-DVD Devices
- Tape Autoloaders, Changers and Libraries
The compatibility list is maintained for the current shipping release of BackupEDGE. Some of the devices listed may not be compatible with older releases.
NOTE: Many of the devices listed below are also sold by other vendors under different names.
Newest additions to the list are in Bold Green.
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| Manufacturer |
Tape Drives |
Comments |
| Any Vendor |
Any device accessible via the operating system device drivers. |
BackupEDGE can disable all special device control if needed, to make it access tape drives identically to tar, cpio, etc. Most drives, however, can
benefit from BackupEDGE’s low-level device control. |
Quantum(Formerly Certance)
(Formerly Seagate
Tape Storage)
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TapeStor DAT 40
Scorpion 40
Travan NS8
Travan NS20
TapeStor/Hornet 20 ATAPI (Linux, Openserver) |
See SCSI3 note 2 below.
See ATAPI note 1
below. |
| Exabyte |
EXB-8700
Mammoth-M2 VXA-1 SCSI
VXA-1 ATAPI (Linux)
VXA-2 SCSI
VXA-320 SCSI |
See VXA notes below. |
| Hewlett-Packard |
SCSI
StorageWorks Ultrium 960
StorageWorks Ultrium 448
StorageWorks Ultrium 232
StorageWorks Ultrium 460
StorageWorks DAT160
StorageWorks DAT72
StorageWorks AIT 35GB
SureStore Ultrium 215
SureStore Ultrium 230
SureStore 6000
DAT24
DAT40
DLT vs80 |
See OBDR & DRTape below.
See SCSI3 note 1 below..
See vs80 note below. |
SAS
StorageWorks Ultrium 1760
StorageWorks Ultrium 448
StprageWorks DAT160 |
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USB
StorageWorks DAT160
StorageWorks DAT72
StorageWorks DAT40
StorageWorks DAT24 |
See USB note below. |
| IBM |
LTO Ultrium 2 |
See SCSI3 note 1 below. |
Tandberg Data Corporation
(Formerly Inostor)
(Formerly Tandberg) |
Tandberg 420LTO
TDC3820
TDC4200
TDC4220
SLR5
SLR7
SLR100 |
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| Sony |
SCSI AIT
SDX-900V AIT-4
SDX-800V AIT-3 Ex
SDX-700V AIT-3
SDX-700C AIT-3
SDX-500V AIT-2
SDX-500V AIT-2
SDX-300C AIT-1
SCSI AIT-Turbo
AIT-2 Turbo
SDX-550V
AITi200/S
AITe200/S
AIT-1 Turbo
SDX-450V
AITi100/S
AITe100/S
AIT-E Turbo
SDX-250V
AITi50/S
AITe50/S
SCSI DDS/DAT
SDT-11000 DDS4
SDT-9000 DDS3
SDT-7000 DDS2 |
See Sony SCSI Notes below. |
ATAPI AIT
SDX-520V AIT-1 ATAPI
SDX-420V AIT-2 ATAPI ATAPI AIT-Turbo
AIT-2 Turbo
SDX-560V
AITi200-A/S
AIT-1 Turbo
SDX-460V
AITi100-A/S
AIT-E Turbo
SDX-260V
AITi50-A/S |
See Sony ATAPI Notes below. |
Serial ATA (SATA)
AIT-Turbo
AIT-2 Turbo
SDX-570V
AIT-1 Turbo
SDX-470V |
See SATA Notes below. |
| Tecmar |
Travan NS8
Travan NS20
WangDAT DDS, including TS9000 Series
WangTek QIC |
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RRD Devices |
Comments |
| Iomega |
REV 120 / 70 / 35 SATA
REV 120 / 70 / 35 USB 2.0
REV 70 / 35 ATAPI
REV 35 SCSI |
See our
REV compatibility page. |
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CD-R / RW Drives |
Comments |
| All |
Any mmc-3 compliant SCSI Device |
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Any mmc-3 compliant ATAPI device |
See ATAPI note 2 below. |
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DVD Dual/Multi |
Comments |
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| Panasonic |
UJ-825B Slimline Slot Load
SW-9585
SW-9574
SW-9573/SW-9583
SW-9572/SW-9582/LF-M621USW-9571/LF-D521U
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See ATAPI note 2 below. |
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| Plextor |
SATA
PX-810SA
PX-755SA
PX-712SA |
See SATA Notes below. |
ATAPI
PX-800A
PX-760A
PX-750A
PX-716A
PX-716A
PX-712A
PX-708A |
See ATAPI note 2 below. |
USB
PX-608CU
PX-750UF
PX-712UF
PX-708UF2 |
See USB note below. |
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| Manufacturer |
DVD-RAM Drives |
Comments |
| Panasonic |
LF-D201 (SCSI)
LF-D291 (SCSI)
LF-D211 (ATAPI)
LF-D311 (DVD-RAM/DVD-R)
LF-D321 (DVD-RAM/DVD-R) |
See ATAPI note 2 below. |
| Hitachi |
GF-2000 (ATAPI)
GF-2050 (SCSI) |
See ATAPI note 2 below. |
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| SCSI3 Note 1 |
The Hewlett-Packard SureStore Ultrium 215 and Ultrium 230, the StorageWorks Ultrium 460, the StorageWorks DAT 72 and the IBM Ultrium LTO2
are SCSI3 compliant devices. SCO/Caldera OpenServer 5 versions prior to 5.0.6 with the RS506a supplements do not handle inquiries to SCSI3 devices properly, resulting in loss of some features of the Ultrium
drives. If you want to use these devices under OpenServer 5.0.5, There is a driver patch available here. |
| SCSI3 Note 2 |
The Seagate TapeStor DAT 40 (also known as the Scorpion 40) is a SCSI 3 compliant device by default. This drive is also marketed by
Dell, IBM, and others. SCO/Caldera OpenServer versions prior to 5.0.6 with the RS506a supplements do not handle inquiries to SCSI3 devices properly, resulting in loss of some features on these devices.
There are switches on the drive that should be set for SCSI2 compliance mode when this device is used on older OpenServer 5 operating system releases. Or, if you want to use these devices in SCSI3 mode under
OpenServer 5.0.5, There is a driver patch available here. |
| OBDR & DRTape |
In general, all HP OBDR Compliant DDS and Ultrium devices are compatible with the bootable tape capabilities of RecoverEDGE
under OpenServer 6, OpenServer 5, Open UNIX 8, UnixWare 7.1.x and Linux.
All Compaq DRTape Compliant DDS and AIT devices are compatible with the bootable tape capabilities of RecoverEDGE
under OpenServer 6, OpenServer 5, Open UNIX 8, UnixWare 7.1.x and Linux.There are many systems with PC or host addapter BIOSes which do not
properly support booting from SCSI or USB tape drives. These are beyond the control of Microlite Corporation. Please test your OBDR/DRtapes before you actually need them. |
| SATA Notes |
SATA (Serial ATA) devices are fully supported under Linux as long as the operating system recognizes the device. Under SCO OpenServer 6 and
UnixWare 7.1.4, they must be atttached to an AHCI compliant motherboard and the AHCI 1.1 Supplement (or later) must be installed. |
ATAPI
Note 1 |
The native ATAPI drivers in Linux work quite well with BackupEDGE, including Fast File Restore on compatible devices. For
maximum compatibility, use the ide-scsi and scsi tape drivers. Under OpenServer 5, we do not recommend the or support use of ATAPI tape drives. The driver does not handle recent tape drives and faster
systems very well. |
ATAPI
Note 2 |
OpenServer 5.0.5 does not support ATAPI CD or DVD devices. OpenServer
5.0.6 supports ATAPI CD and DVD devices only if the latest wd supplement from SCO has been applied. OpenServer 5.0.7, already has this supplement and is capable of using ATAPI CD and DVD devices as shipped. An
improved driver is installed with Maintenance Pack 3 (MP3) and MP3 or later is highly recommended. They are required for SMP and HT systems.
UnixWare 7.1.1 and later
(including OpenUNIX 8) support ATAPI CD, DVD and REV devices when used with BackupEDGE. The hba ide 714b supplement (at minimum) is required for 7.1.1 – 7.1.4.
Under Linux for ATAPI CD/DVD/REV
devices, 2.4.x kernels require ide-scsi to be used and DMA to be enabled. In 2.6.x kernels the native ide-cd driver is used, but DMA must still be enabled. |
| USB Note |
SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 supported. SCO Openserver 5.0.7 supported. SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 or later supported. Linux supported |
| REV Note |
Iomega REV SCSI, ATAPI, SATA and USB 2.0 support varies by operating system. See the
dedicatated REV page for complete information. If your Linux kernel has poor USB
support (typically older kernels only) it may not work properly with REV. |
| VXA Notes |
The VXA-1, VXA-2 and VXA-320 SCSI devices are fully supported on all operating systems. The VXA-1 ATAPI is supported only under Linux, using the ide-scsi driver. |
| Sony SCSI Notes |
SCSI Devices are fully supported. |
| Sony ATAPI Notes |
ATAPI drives are fully supported under SCO OpenServer 6. They are also supported under Linux using the ide-scsi driver, and under SCO
UnixWare 7 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 releases with HBA IDE 7.1.4b or later installed. Under OpenServer 5 and UnixWare 7.1.2 they will operate with limited functionality and performance. |
| vs80 Note |
The Hewlett Packard DLT vs80 supports OBDR in a fixed hardware block size of 2048. However, it has very poor write speed in this mode. For
best performance we recommend that this device be used in variable (0) block mode with a minimum software block size of 256, and that OBDR not be used. |
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