From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Do SATA Tapes work on *any* SATA controller? Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:59 +0900 Message-ID: <4862333F.6020201@kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:46957 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752394AbYFYMAZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Russell Brown Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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