USB --> SCSI

[steve shumaker]

On 3/27/2015 9:47 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 27 March 2015 at 17:36, Bob Brown<bbrown at harpercollege.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Does anyone know if a usb -->  scsi adapter might allow me to connect an hp 9-track tape drive (7980s) to a computer running windows-7?
>> Has anyone done it?
>> Any pointers (drivers etc)?
>>      
> I believe they existed, long ago. USB1 ones were terribly terribly
> slow. By the USB2 era, SCSI was disappearing, but they might exist.
> USB3, forget it.
>
> But I suspect that a device that old (we're talking
> turn-of-the-century) won't have drivers for Win7. You *might* have a
> chance of getting it working on 32-bit Win7.
>
>
> E.g.
>
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/usb_scsi/usb2xchange/
>
> http://www.synchrotech.com/product-usb/usb2-uscsi-conv_01.html
>
> Note the supported OSes.
>
> This looks more promising...
>
> http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/U2SCX.html
>
>    
wow!   after noting the "discontinued" label at the Ratoc homepage, I 
looked at Epay...   were they always *that* expensive?

Steve