* Re: Do SATA tape drives work?
[not found] <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
@ 2008-01-09 5:18 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-09 6:09 ` Mark Lord
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From: Tejun Heo @ 2008-01-09 5:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Woithe; +Cc: linux-kernel, 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
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2008-01-09 5:18 ` Do SATA tape drives work? Tejun Heo
@ 2008-01-09 6:09 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-09 6:25 ` Jonathan Woithe
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mark Lord @ 2008-01-09 6:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tejun Heo
Cc: Jonathan Woithe, linux-kernel, IDE/ATA development list,
Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote:
> [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?
..
I wouldn't buy anything with "Sony" on it,
but Albert thinks ATAPI tapes should be working now
(he has my old drive now).
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