justcomingdear Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi. I'm recreating a 5 year old environment (Retro 6.1 I figure) to restore some ancient SDLT tapesets. I've rebuilt a G5, found drivers for the adaptec 29160 SCSI card, and connected a hulking great Compaq series 3306 110/220 Gb SDLT drive. When I set this up way back when I'm sure there were tape drive compatibility issues and I don't think this was the model we used to write the tapes - the original seems to have disappeared in an office move. So I've got all the parts but the sods don't talk to each other. ANY suggestions appreciated - thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Adaptec's drivers are not supported for Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Get an Atto card if you are running 10.4 or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justcomingdear Posted June 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 How interesting; the cards worked before for sure. I would be grateful for any advice you can give regarding the tape drive, though. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 How interesting; the cards worked before for sure. I would be grateful for any advice you can give regarding the tape drive, though. Thanks! Well, "not supported" isn't always "not working", but I wouldn't trust it. What Mac OS X version do you run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justcomingdear Posted June 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 10.4.latest. I'm waiting for an old SCSI disk to arrive from ebay to test the card. If necessary I'll drop back to 10.3 if the G5 supports it - and Retrospect. Do you have any thoughts about teh compatibility of that tape drive? It doesn't appear on any list I can find, but then again I can't find any mention of SDLT *anywhere* in relation to Retro 6.x - spooky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Do you have any thoughts about teh compatibility of that tape drive? It doesn't appear on any list I can find, but then again I can't find any mention of SDLT *anywhere* in relation to Retro 6.x - spooky. If this is your drive described here, it could be OK. Good luck and keep us posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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