From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Do SATA tape drives work? Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:09:21 -0500 Message-ID: <47846511.30805@rtr.ca> References: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1837 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751555AbYAIGJX (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:09:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jonathan Woithe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 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).