Hey all just wanted to give you an update.

Last April I went a different direction with my LTO solution. I returned the OWC LTO system as I could not get to work properly or any support from OWC. I ended up going with a Magstor LTO-8 system. I have put that drive through it’s paces. I migrated all of my LTO-5 BRU Library to a LTO-8 LTFS Library…

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Tim, I was checking to see if you guys have worked out the Apple kernel problem with the m1 Mac and the the Mercury Pro LTO. I have not seen a new driver out yet for the LTO.

Hi Tim, It’s been a bit, but I was checking in to see if the driver has been updated.

Thank you.

Martin, I have been doing some testing on the OWC LTO and I was able to connect properly to my 2013 iMac which is running 10.14.6 Mojave. I am thinking of testing YoYotta, on this system, as I can connect my LTO-7 Deck and pull archives using BRU and wanting to test archiving using the LTO-8 with YoYotta. I know this is not the best set up…

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Thank you Tim, this is encouraging. I do have Argest Backup installed on the Mac mini and does seem to work,but the issue at hand is keeping me from using it.

That is what I have figured, I have asked support at OWC to see if they have an updated driver, but I have yet to hear from them.

When I found out about the news that Tolis was no longer, I’ll be honest, I panicked. A little history. I felt that I am on that edge where I do need to update my archiving solution. I have been running Bru since 2014, now at 3.X.X quite easily on my iMac which is fairly old and is now locked in and will never be updated.

Through out this year,…

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