[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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
