From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 15:27:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598581065670 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218FE8FC1C for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142AE27A13 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:27:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LbvSULTfzraK for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from roo.honeypot.net (wlan2-101.honeypot.net [10.0.7.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B56C9279CA for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <48B420C2.8020105@strauser.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:58 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Adapter to hook SCSI tape drive to SATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:27:06 -0000 I have a Seagate DDS-4 tape drive hanging off a Tekram SCSI card. I was starting to get random hard resets whenever accessing the drive - as in "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sa0" would get me to the BIOS POST screen in under a second - so this morning I swapped out an unused card of the same model from another system. Hopefully this was just a hardware glitch and the "new" card (which is also 9 years old) will be OK. This got me thinking, though: has anyone used any of the SCSI-to-SATA adapters to hook a tape drive to their FreeBSD system? More importantly, did it work? I'd just as soon use one of the on-board SATA connectors as an aging boat anchor of a SCSI card if I could get away with it. I mean, I still use SCSI a lot elsewhere, but I'd like to ditch it in this one specific application if possible. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser