[cc'ing linux-ide]

Jonathan Woithe wrote:
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> 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?

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tejun
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