Hello,
Thank you Greg, Trevor and Adam for getting back to me. I appreciate it!
On 2023-01-12 02:23, Trevor Cordes wrote:
Like Greg said, need more info:
- What level of SCSI is your drive? And is it wide? 5, 10, 20, 40,
80; fast, fast-wide, lvd, ultra, etc.
I am not very familiar with SCSI, It may be easier for me to just explain what I want to do.
Need to retrieve contents from Ultrium 2 tapes. I have on my hands:
- IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Drive (3580-L23). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-ibm-totalstorage-ultrium-tape-dri...
- SCSI Cable. One ends seems to connect on the drive, the other one would connect to the card, presumably.
- A bunch of Ultrium 2 tapes which contents need to be retrieved from.
- Is it external or internal?
External.
Often the connector on the drive will tell you what you need to know to at least get connected, if not at the optimum speed.
There are two connectors. In between them, there's a sticker that says SCSI LVD.
Speed would be a nice to have, but if it is slower and I have to wait, that's fine too.
My plan is to consolidate the contents of those older tapes on fewer, newer tapes. There's one tape that I would like to retrieve the contents from ASAP, but if it takes longer, so be it.
I have a few controllers, I can loan you one as long as you don't need one too modern. I probably don't have anything as new as a 29160 (that I'm not currently using) though.
That would be awesome. I appreciate it.
I do have lots of cabling and some terminators.
That is great too. I have *a* cable here, but no idea if that's what I really need.
Thank you everyone.
Kind regards, Alberto Abrao