Let's reduce the number of "Is my tape drive supported" questions.

diff --git a/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex b/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex
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--- a/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex
+++ b/docs/manual/supporteddrives.tex
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 \index[general]{Drives!Supported Tape }
 \index[general]{Supported Tape Drives }
 
+Yes, Bacula supports your tape drive.  Bacula does not directly access 
+hardware.  If the tape drive is accessible from your operating system, 
+then it should just work with Bacula.  If you can access your tape drive 
+from the command line, then so can Bacula.
+
 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
@@ -72,6 +77,13 @@ unknown:
 
 \end{longtable}
 
+\section{Don't see your drive?}
+
+If you do not see your tape drive listed above, go back and read the
+first few paragraphs of this page.  The list above contains only the 
+hardware that people have reported.  If your OS can see the hardware, so 
+can Bacula.
+
 There is a list of \ilink{supported autochangers}{Models} in the Supported
 Autochangers chapter of this document, where you will find other tape drives
 that work with Bacula.