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Subject: Re: Sata Tape Drives
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Il 07/16/10 00:24, Dan Nelson ha scritto:
> In the last episode (Jul 15), Michael Anderson said:
>> Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some
>> other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware
>> compatibility documents.
>
> I see an "atapist" device in /sys/conf/NOTES:
>
> device          atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
>
> , which might work.  The "atapicam" or "ahci" device may also make sata
> tapes show up as if they were scsi devices.  Try "ahci" first.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicam
>
>

And please, in case you try, let us know the results...
I know I'm not helping you, but I've tried many times to find out 
whether SATA *and SAS* tape drives are expected to work.

  bye & Thanks
	av.