From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Do SATA tape drives work? Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:18:21 +0900 Message-ID: <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> References: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]:53071 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753184AbYAIFS3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:18:29 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so97567rvb.1 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:18:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Woithe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , Mark Lord [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