Ran across this thread in the course of doing some research about Cache-A.
I am not a media professional, just another Linux geek, these are just my professional opinions, and I’m not affiliated with any company or vendor in the community CreativeCow serves.
This thread helped me confirm some suspicions I already had regarding this hardware, and as previously mentioned here, there may be people seeking help with Cache-A hardware from time to time.
That said, I feel obligated to warn anyone who owns a Cache-A appliance, please do the following:
1. Double & triple check your media to make sure the files you think are stored on tape really are present on the LTO cartridges.
2. Find something else, ASAP, these things are bad news, and a disgrace to the Linux community.