Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:09:21 -0500 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: 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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