Is ultra wide scsi dead?

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I am trying to find a tape backup solution for this card:

Symbois Logic 875xSlD, 2280x PCI scsi adapter

I am pretty sure it is an ultra wide scsi adapter... but I cannot find any tape backups for this.. I can only find hds.. Why is this? Is this card dead? does ultrawide have another name?
Is all/most stuff now low voltage differential?


thanks!
Lee

 

[CalvinHobbes]

A lot of the current SCSI tape devices are SE or LVD/SE. Is that a differential card or single ended?

 

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not sure how to tell :/

 

[Zepper]

Most tape drives don't have anywhere near the thruput rate of what UWSCSI2 can do (40MB/sec) - many will have the 50-pin (25 pin x 2 rows, IDE-like) connector (20MB/sec max) - just need to get an adapter to hook it to your card (probably a 68 pin high-density). Most SCSI host adapters (often mistakenly called "controllers) are backward compatible to at least SCSI2 narrow (10MB/sec).
. Just go to the http://www.lsilogic.com site and look up your card. sites like the following have all sorts cables and connector adapters:

here's the adapter I use to hook my 50-pin CD burner to my 68-pin cable: Adapter But remember, if you use an adapter like this on a channel that is currently running LVD, it will drop back to SE operation. So if you already have any LVD devices on a cable, you should hook SE drives to a separate channel or SE stub.

Here are some good SCSI vendors:

http://www.hypermicro.com (may offer free ground shipping if you mention www.storagereview.com - check the SR site for the latest offer)
http://www.centrix-intl.com
http://www.pc-pitstop.com (offers PayPal as a payment option)
http://www.scsi4me.com (ditto)
http://www.etech4sale.com

and I can usually find stuff (like drives, cables and adapters) for low bucks on eBay.

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

I like to use a HD in a mobile rack (or FireWire external) for backing up - much faster (and cheaper these days) than tape.

.bh.