From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754213AbYAIGJe (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:09:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751558AbYAIGJY (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:09:24 -0500 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 Message-ID: <47846511.30805@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:09:21 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jonathan Woithe , 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> <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4784591D.3060000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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).