From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751681AbYAIFSl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:18:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbYAIFSa (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:18:30 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:53777 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750882AbYAIFS2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:18:28 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rF1XQlVTHajDdpksYNmnHQwnZTwoNCKG2020SY1sJz4X0uqGZtsJt83vbY9UsuTjALDe+DsHWdYFQIg2P7NkuZs/JM1dYht71WhIonezOBnboFViAqa0yPN+/k8dONPWlef5zuUB64ARc1UYzdyVW+nLq9cYQU3NkS4V40u8G4Y= Message-ID: <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:18:21 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Woithe CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , Mark Lord Subject: Re: Do SATA tape drives work? References: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200801090329.m093T7Op019488@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [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