ghoffman Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Has anyone tired this? I have a VXA-1 50-pin SE (single ended SCSI) drive that has failed. Exabyte is unable to repair this drive for 2-3 weeks (I have already been down for 2 weeks for this failure). Exabyte sent me instead a 68-pin LVD drive (without my OK) and I received it yesterday. They recommended that I obtain an adapter that would allow me to connect this drive to my existing Adaptec 2930 SCSI card. So, will I be able to get this to work with Retrospect 5.0.238 running under Mac OS X 10.2.6 on a PM G4/450 DP? My concern is that Dantz has said they don't support connections like this? Is this a fundamental limitation of Mac OS X? Something Dantz has not tried and so cannot recommend? I really want to get my backup back up and running, but seem to have few alternatives to this adapter. Alternatives I seems to have: 1) Obtain the 68 pin to 50 pin adapter, and hope it works. A day or three. Adaptec seems to have an inline device, a 1840900 part#, that will do the job, including high-byte termination. 2) Return the incorrect LVD drive, and my failed SE drive. Wait 2-3 weeks or more for repair. Also significant shipping costs. 3) Buy a LVD SCSI interface card. Several hundred dollares. $$$ (PS: I want a SCSI card that will let my G4 go to deep sleep). 4) Buy a new FireWire VXA-1 drive. $800-1000 $$$. Have the old drive repaired under waranty and sell to recoup some of cost. A big hassle. Suggestions? Thanks Glenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levitt@merck.com Posted August 9, 2003 Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 Glenn: I have a feeling the adapters will not work. I recently went from OS 9 to X. In 9 I was using cables that had 50 pin on one end and 68 pin on the other to connect to my Adic libraries. Under OS X, the only way I have been able to get these to work is to use Atto cards I had laying around that have the same 68 pin configuration as the Adics. When I used the same cards and cables I used in OS 9, Retrospect did not see the tape libraries. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 11, 2003 Report Share Posted August 11, 2003 Hi, SCSI adapters and OSX are bad news. It just palin doesn't work very well. Trust me when I say there are many who have tried... I suggest buying an adapter from the Dantz supported list- it is your safest bet: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27381 Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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