From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Do SATA tape drives work?
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:18:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
[cc'ing linux-ide]
Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I was wondering whether anyone can shed any light on the status of SATA tape
> drives. There's very little info on the net about this at least in the
> places I've checked; the only thing of any significance I've found thus far
> is a note in a Bacula document dated April 2007 which states that drives
> other than real SCSI units don't generally work with Bacula.
>
> To put this into context, I'm looking at purchasing a Sony SDX470VRB SATA
> AIT-1 tape drive for use with the SATA controller on an Intel DG31PR
> mainboard. The drive will be used primarily with tar/cpio. Obvsiouly
> however I only want to make the purchase if there's a reasonable chance of
> it working.
>
> I would appreciate any information you can shed on this issue.
It's supposed to with recent updates. Mark, right?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 3:29 Do SATA tape drives work? Jonathan Woithe
2008-01-09 5:18 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-01-09 6:09 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-09 6:25 ` Jonathan Woithe
2008-01-09 6:25 ` Jonathan Woithe
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