Hi,

after locking at the kernel source I think it should be possible to
add support for other DATs. I'm not experienced in this kind of stuff
but the HP DATs don't defere that much so a basic support for other
types should be possible. I'll try a few things to get this to work.
All kind of help is welcome!

Martin, do you still have the code you tried? I'd be interessted in
what exactly did you try allready.

Martin Lucina wrote:
> You haven't missed anything. I tried to use a HP 35480A DAT (one of the older
> DDS-DC mechanisms) a while back with no luck. It appears that the tape support
> in the kernel is rather ancient. I did find a definition for an HP 35420 (I
> think) in the source code and I tried to hack it to work with my 35480A but
> failed, not knowing enough about the SCSI code. There's not much you can do,
> apart from doing a long-overdue SCSI rewrite.

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MfG Reiner.

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