USB --> SCSI

[Jacob Ritorto]

hahaha.  windows is hilarious.


On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:35 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:

> 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
>