Tweak Bacula restrictions

[bacula/docs] / docs / manuals / en / main / supporteddrives.tex

diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/supporteddrives.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/supporteddrives.tex
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--- a/docs/manuals/en/main/supporteddrives.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/supporteddrives.tex
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Bacula uses standard operating system calls (read, write, ioctl) to
 interface to tape drives.  As a consequence, it relies on having a
 correctly written OS tape driver. Bacula is known to work perfectly well
 with SCSI tape drivers on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows machines,
-and it may work on other *nix machines, but we have not tested it.
+and it may work on other *nix machines.
+
 Recently there are many new drives that use IDE, ATAPI, or
 SATA interfaces rather than SCSI. On Linux the OnStream drive, which uses
 the OSST driver is one such
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ is a good chance that it will not work. We are working with the kernel
 developers to rectify this situation, but it will not be resolved in the 
 near future.
 
+Generally any modern tape drive (i.e. after 2010) will work out
+of the box with Bacula using the standard Bacula Device specification
+in the bacula-sd.conf file.
+
 Even if your drive is on the list below, please check the 
 \ilink{Tape Testing Chapter}{btape1} of this manual for
 procedures that you can use to verify if your tape drive will work with