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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-01-12 21:41, Adam Thompson
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Luckily
for Alberto, there’s basically no such thing as a passive HD68
or VHCI terminator, so anything he finds that’s physically
compatible will also be electrically compatible with Ultra160
signalling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Terminators
of all flavours are – amazingly – still easy to get on both
Amazon and eBay, and at not-insane prices, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>My first worry was to buy a bunch of things and something - e.g.
the tape drive - is not working.</p>
<p>If I can at least hook it all up and see if the tape drive will
read the tape in the first place... but at that point, might as
well keep going, read all of them, be done with this vintage of
tape for good.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Oh,
and LSI did make the LSi20320IE chip, which is a PCIe Ultra320
HBA controller – I see one on Amazon for only $115?!? The
overwhelming majority of Ultra320 and Ultra160 adapters were
PCI-X, which means server-class motherboards only; you *<b>usually</b>*
have to go down to Ultra-Fast Wide (80MB/sec) before plain PCI
could keep up. (PCI was limited to 133MB/sec, you can do the
math!) 66MHz PCI (266MB/sec) really only existed in PCI-X
anyway, so there you go…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ultrium 2 maxing out at 80MB/s means I should be OK with PCI.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">A
word of warning, if you’re buying a SCSI HBA (card), make sure
you do NOT get a RAID card – those are often useless for tape
drives.</span></p>
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<p>I am trying my best not to buy anything, not because I am not
able to, but because I am hoping that'll be the last time we'll
use this particular tape drive, making it pointless. Unless we
must, then it is what it is.<br>
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<p>Still, I appreciate the input, as it may happen that we end up
keeping it around for whatever reason. You know what they say
about hope, it springs eternal.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(If
I hadn’t done a major purge 3 yrs ago when I moved, I would
still have all the bits and pieces needed. Oh well.)</span></p>
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<p>If you hadn't done a major purge 3 years ago, no one would be
asking for it. More often than not, we keep it around just to
*not* need it. That's the only explanation I have for only needing
things I've purged *after* the purge... sigh.... ;)<br>
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