16 Oct
2015
16 Oct
'15
10:25 a.m.
A nine track drive would certainly not work with an
ACARD adapter- they are "intelligent" designed for mass storage. And on top of
that the only adapters I know of go the wrong way (IDE devices on a SCSI bus), though I
haven't researched the reverse.
Derp yea. Forgot about that. I've only used the ACARD boards in music
hardware not stand alone computers and forgot the direction.
I gave Josh Dersch a Xircom USB to SCSI not so long
ago and we had no
issue getting it to talk to an HP SCSI 9-track tape drive and even
streaming music off of it. Linux handles both devices fine- plug and
play. I have a Microtech USB to SCSI and it worked similarly although my
9-track streamer is sort of screwed. There's not even a project here.
Connect the cables and try it, or forever hold your postulation... ;)
Cool. The USB to SCSI dongles I have are old and unbranded but NetBSD
picked them up. Back then I think I was trying to use an embedded board,
so many more options now. I had Pentium1 board with PC/104 sound card.
TBH, I think QIC tapes might be a bit better since you can mount the drive
in the dash. There are 13GB versions or something so you could get a few
blu-ray rips on each tape.
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Ethan O'Toole