Russell Brown wrote: > Executive Summary: Do SATA Tape drives work at all? > > > Ages past (March 28th) I posted to this list about my problems with Sony > AIT tape drives on a nVidia MCP55 SATA controller (using sata_nv). > > I never did get them working so I've just bought a Silicon Image PCI SiI > 3512 SATA controller (using the sata_sil driver) to see if it might > work. > > Sadly it doesn't and I still can't write tapes on a SATA drive with > Linux 2.6.25.1. > > So before I put my SATA Tape drives in the bin, bite the bullet and > purchase SCSI versions and SCSI controllers I thought I'd ask if the > list knew of *any* SATA controller that works with tape drives in Linux? > > Anyone? At all? Albert Lee worked on tape drive support a while ago and ISTR he got a few devices working. I'm interested. Are you willing to ship the drive to me? I can pay via paypal unless it's too expensive. Thanks. -- 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
