Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:58 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adapter to hook SCSI tape drive to SATA? Message-ID: <48B420C2.8020105@strauser.com>
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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
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