Zailong Bian wrote:
>
> >From what I heard from Gadi Oxman, the ide-tape driver mantainer, the AIWA
> Bolt drive is actually a floppy drive packed as and IDE drive rather than
> a geniune ATAPI drive which confirms to QIC157. The headers are exactly
> the same as defined in include/linux/ftape-header-segent.h. Gadi is not
> familiar with floppy tape drives. According to him, "...Diving deep into
> the floppy tape driver, learning it, and copying large parts of it into
> the IDE tape driver to support a tape which is sold as ATAPI but is not
> really a QIC157 compliant one is a complex, time consuming task."
>
> So, will the floppy tape guys support the AIWA Bolt drive?
It is our intention to see that the Aiwa Bolt / Sony SuperStation drives
are supported under Linux. I can't get you an estimate as to the
completion date, but we do have Aiwa's Japan-based engineering team in
our camp, so it shouldn't be too long.
We'll be posting to this list when things get closer.
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