Re: Do SATA tape drives work?

[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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