>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?



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