From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Russell Brown <russell@lls.lls.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do SATA Tapes work on *any* SATA controller?
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4862333F.6020201@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1KB9va-003v2oa@lls.lls.com>
Russell Brown wrote:
> Executive Summary: Do SATA Tape drives work at all?
>
>
> Ages past (March 28th) I posted to this list about my problems with Sony
> AIT tape drives on a nVidia MCP55 SATA controller (using sata_nv).
>
> I never did get them working so I've just bought a Silicon Image PCI SiI
> 3512 SATA controller (using the sata_sil driver) to see if it might
> work.
>
> Sadly it doesn't and I still can't write tapes on a SATA drive with
> Linux 2.6.25.1.
>
> So before I put my SATA Tape drives in the bin, bite the bullet and
> purchase SCSI versions and SCSI controllers I thought I'd ask if the
> list knew of *any* SATA controller that works with tape drives in Linux?
>
> Anyone? At all?
Albert Lee worked on tape drive support a while ago and ISTR he got a
few devices working. I'm interested. Are you willing to ship the drive
to me? I can pay via paypal unless it's too expensive.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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2008-06-24 14:55 Do SATA Tapes work on *any* SATA controller? Russell Brown
2008-06-25 11:59 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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