Bill Gates Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 I'm looking to find out if anyone has knowledge of experience as to whether the Sony SAITe 500/1300 SCSI is compatible with Mac OS X and Retrospect for Mac. I know the unit ships with Retrospect for Windows OEM. Any advice or success stories appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Hi Do you know what kind of media this drive uses? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Gates Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Yes, it is S-AIT-1 tapes which hold 500/1300 tapes. They are similar in size to a DLT but have the cicruitry on board the same as AIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmseiden Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Whether you're using your real name or not... Love that screen ID In addition to Nate's comments about media compatibility in OS X, you'll have SCSI compatibility depending on machine you're using. It came to the forefront for me because I'm considering a new desktop machine- a G5, PPC. The SCSI adapter issue is a big problem there. To solve that may require an adapter from SCSI to Firewire unless you have one, expensive adapter that's proven and been tested with your combination of hardware and Retro. Even at that it's dicey. Apple has been sliding away from SCSI hardware support. If you do get it to work, let us know about the machine and version of Retro as that would be a boon to us tape believers. What's the media cost looking like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Gates Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 The host machine is a rack-mounted G4 with a Dual channel ATTO SCSI-3 card. I plan to retain this with the S-AIT. Media prices are OK for UK but searching US website, I couold get them much cheaper. I've had a reply from dantz stating that the S-AIT format is compatable with mac OS X and Retrospect for Mac but I really wish to get clarification that this particular unit will function. If so it is a really good technology and I would spec them again for other clients who are getting close to 1Tb of live data. PS: My screen-name always goes down well on web forums. Particularly the Mac ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi FWIW - There are a lot of cases where Sony will change a model number even though the hardware hasn't changed at all. I suspect this is one of those cases. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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