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Scsi Tape

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Scsi Tape
Scsi+Tape

I have an old scsi tape drive. How do I connect it?

I have an old internal scsi tape drive. It uses the internal scsi connector that looks like an extended ata ide connector that would be on cd rom and hard drives. My motherboard on my computer does not have an internal scsi connector. Can I use a PCI scsi adapter card and connect the internal scsi cable to my tape drive from my scsi adapter card? Will it work? Or is that PCI scsi card's internal scsi connector supposed to hook directly to my motherboard? Also, will that work even though the PCI scsi adapter card also has an external scsi connector on it(to hook up external scsi devices)?
Help please
Thanks

Yes you can get a PCI to SCSI adapter...however...they are very expensive...and PCI bus speed is less than SCSI speed..you can look here...http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=PCI+to+SCSI
Besides a tape drive themselves are not cheap..but VERY slow...you would be MUCH better served with a CD/DVD drive or if you need lots of back up storage...a blu-ray burner!
Even a PCIe x1 adapter is expensive...I would keep the tape drive as a museum piece!