[RndTbl] Need to borrow a SCSI Controller

[John Lange]

Once upon a time they made a USB-to-SCSI adaptor and it worked more or less
out of the box with Windows and Linux. Sadly there is no such thing anymore
so you'd have to find one used. Also, I suspect it wouldn't work with tapes
because I think it makes the drive just show up as generic USB storage
which means you probably can't send the tape commands to it.

John


On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 12:40 PM Alberto Abrao <alberto at abrao.net> wrote:

> On 2023-01-13 01:02, Trevor Cordes wrote:
>
> > VHDCI would be a bit weird on that cable at the HBA side (going from
> > memory)?
>
> Here:
>
> End #1: https://cloud.abrao.net/s/GCHFd9aycJRnncf
>
> End #2: https://cloud.abrao.net/s/NgRjBY9S4KYfKHb
>
> > Ya, you'll have to do pics, or just come on over one evening and we'll
> > make it work.  If you want to wait until after your trip and you're in
> > no big rush, could do it at the next-next board meeting.
>
> My timelines are a lot tighter than that, I am afraid.
>
> > Adam's note of drive termination may be correct and that will solve
> > that problem if you can crack open the case.
> Guess I'll have to, although I am trying to avoid that.
> > My idea of making the
> > thing internal by taking it out of its case is probably the way to go.
> > If you're cracking it open to flip a termination DIP then you might as
> > well just get it all running via internal.  Hell, you can probably just
> > have it hanging half out the system ("an internal external!").
> If it comes down to that...
> > You may have trouble putting together the required external cables from
> > MUUG members without ordering something (and waiting...) if you try to
> > make it work all-external.
>
> Per my calculations, we would use 2x LTO-8 tapes *at most* to fit the
> contents of all Ultrium 2 tapes we have They're also on the the lower
> range of their expected life span (15-30 years, as per Wikipedia).
>
> > Checking checking... nope, not I; so another vote for an internal
> > solution.
>
> Greg offered exactly what I'd need to perform this task without messing
> with the drive, which seems to be working OK - we ran a cleaning tape on
> it this morning.
>
> With that said, I need to get on it fairly soon, so I'll have to get it
> going one way or the other. I may just go down that path, if needed.
>
> > Don't worry, much of your stuff is still here, and I'll let Alberto
> > know if he needs to thank you for the loaner part :-)
> >
> To be fair, I should do that already: thank you Greg, Adam, Trevor, and
> Hartmut, for the input!
>
> Kind regards,
> Alberto Abrao
>
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John Lange
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