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DateWed, 09 Jan 2008 01:09:21 -0500
FromMark Lord <>
SubjectRe: Do SATA tape drives work?
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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