On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:39:06AM -0600, Bryan Boatright wrote:
>
> I've been trying to figure out how to get my AIWA Bolt EIDE tape drive to
> work with Linux. I've searched the web and found a lot of discouraging
> comments about this drive not working with Linux. But I found this
> comment from Tim:
I don't know where you found this comment, I don't have it in my "archive",
and I thought I'd saved all the posts regarding the Bolt, since I too
was interested in it. However here's the last comment I have saved, also
from Tim, which sounds quite the opposite of the one you quote:
> Erik Fleischer wrote:
> >
> > I've recently bought an Aiwa Bolt tape drive (TD-AS10) with 5/10 GB
> > tapes but cannot get it to work under Linux. If anyone could help me,
> > I'd be enormously grateful.
>
> The Aiwa Bolt drive is a non-functional device under Linux. The tape
> format is too alien to all existing device drivers to be used.
>
> While we are attempting to find a way to put the support for the
> QIC-172c format into a driver, we've also heard very reliable rumours
> that Aiwa is dropping the Bolt, and all other tape storage products.
>
> Tim Jones
> Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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