Gadi worked on mine for a while and decided it has broken firmware or some other problem. It gives strange error message while trying to read the filemarks. It died for me after about 6 mb. Sony tech support refuses to answer the phone. I played phone tag for 2 weeks trying to getr specs to write the driver to no avail.
>
> Hi Folks -
>
> I am sorry to disturb your kernel development activities but I am having
> major problems with a Sony SuperStation IDE drive I recently purchased. Is
> this drive supported by the Linux kernel? Is support for it broken in the
> 2.2.1 series of kernels? I currently use RedHat 5.2 that has been
> customized to support kernel 2.2.1. If I compile the IDE/Tape as a loadable
> module at run time I am able to store and retrieve small amounts of data but
> trying to store large amounts of data will always result in lots of I/O
> errors. Moreover, if I compile the IDE/Tape module statically into the
> kernel and try to backup anything I will immediately get a kernel panic and
> the whole system locks up solid. At this point I usually end up having to
> hit the reset button to regain control of my workstation.
>
> I had the ftape module working for a while but after I installed this drive
> I removed support for it. Is there something else apart from ATAPI/TAPE
> support that needs to be compiled into the kernel for this to work?
>
> I really could use some help with this. I have emailed the author of
> ide-tape.c but have not received any response yet so I figured here was the
> best place to ask for help.
>
>
> Thank You.
>
> Juan Casero
> Email: casero@bellsouth.net
>
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