Original post: =============== I'm trying to connect an Exabyte Mammoth-2 8mm tape drive to one of my Blade 100 work stations. The 8mm tape uses a SCSI-2 LVD interface. According to Sun the only Sun PCI card supported on Blade 100 for SCSI-2/LVD is the X2222A Dual Fast Ethernet + Dual SCSI PCI Adapter for about $2600, or I could buy a Blade 2000 and get an $800 dollar card. Either option seems a bit expensive ($2600 or $11000). Does anyone know of a third party PCI SCSI-2/LVD card that I can run on Blade 100? =========================================================================== Summary: =============== Many thanks to the system managers who replied. Great information. There are at least two 3rd party PCI cards available: http://www.antares.com/scsi/0068.htm http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/hba/scsi/ultra2/index.html At least one person has been successful using single ended SCSI-2 cards with the Mammoth-2 tape drive, but at a lower speed than the differential card would support. Sun has one available at a reasonable price (X5010A for $199). I have a call into Exabyte to see if they support this, and if it will invalidate their warranty. I decided to go with the Antares P-0068 PCI card, $495 list price. Again, many thanks to everyone. Below are the replies I received: =========================================================================== From: Alex Stade <alex@trdlnk.com> Antares has some, www.antares.com. I think their top-of-the-line Ultra 160 card is somewhere around $700. =========================================================================== From: "David H. Brierley" <dhb@raytheon.com> Never mind third party, why isn't Sun acknowledging the fact that their own documentation says that you can put an X5010A single channel scsi controller in the SB-100? The X5010A has a list price of $199. =========================================================================== From: "Tom Jones" <tjones@statesman.com> I'm running three M2 drives on single-ended adapters - does the Blade 100 include onboard SCSI? =========================================================================== From: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> Antares should work, the spec sheet says so and we have used them on a older Ultra 10. http://www.antares.com/scsi/0076.htm The other choice is LSI Logic: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/hba/scsi/ultra2/index.html =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 30 19:30:09 2002
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