SCSI card for Sony tape drive?

[Phaethar]

I'm looking to find a Redhat Linux compatible SCSI card to use with a Sony tape drive (SDX-D400C). The drive is a few years old and lists the requirements for use as a Ultra Wide SCSI Single-ended/Low Voltage Differential (LVD) 68-pin connector. While I've used some of the newer SCSI technologies, my memory is a bit fuzzy and, in looking, I'm not sure what card I should get. Adaptec usually has pretty good compatibility with Redhat Linux systems, so I was trying to go with them. I found some of their older cards available online (AHA-2940UW and AHA-2940U2W) that sound like they might work. The 2940UW does not mention supporting LVD technology, and the 2940U2W is Ultra-2 SCSI, which I'm not sure is compatible with this tape drive.

So, if someone knows, or wants to take a look at Sony's specs on the drive and recommend a good SCSI card, I'd really appreciate any advice.

Links to the products I've been looking at are:

2940UW:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...US&cat=/Product/APD-2940UW&prodkey=APD-2940UW

2940U2W:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...&cat=/Product/APD-2940U2W&prodkey=APD-2940U2W

Sony Tape Drive Info:

http://www.storagebysony.com/products/productmain.asp?id=140#

Thanks.

 

[cdlvj]

Those will not work, you have to have the models with *160* and *320* for the LVD connections.

 

[Phaethar]

Hmm, ok.. that will definitely help narrow things down. I didn't think that the U160 cards had been out as long as this drive.. I guess I was looking at the older cards also as the tape drive only listed it's max speed as 40 MB/sec.

So, now I need to find a U160 card that uses a 32-bit PCI slot (64-bit won't fit in the riser card on the server), has a 68-pin externel connector, and that works in Linux. That should be easy to find, right? ;-)

 

[Phaethar]

Also, what about something like this:

http://www.shop4tech.com/item1579.html

This cards lists itself as being Ultra-2 SCSI, but also that it supports LVD. Would a 68-pin Ultra-2 connection be compatible with a drive like this Sony?

Thanks again for the help so far.

 

[cdlvj]

Yes that would work ok. I assume that Linux drivers would be available. You could also use those older cards with adapters.

Almost all of this stuff is pretty much compatible.