Dear Adam, In message <fb1c4e2f-4f43-30d7-e7b2-4ee86eefd...@matrixscience.com> you wrote: > > This might be considered slightly off topic but has anybody tried > installing USB3 PCIe card in an external LTO tape drive? > > Many models appear to have 2 slots with only one occupied by SAS by > default, e.g: > https://www.bechtle.com/de-en/shop/quantum-lto-7-hh-sas-external-drive--4038311--p
Did you ever take a look at a LTO drive and inside an external case? Those cases may appear to have "slots", but I have never seen a case where an external case / drive actually used a PCIe card or such: the SAS interface is builtin to the drive itself, and there is usually only a cable adapter to match to the external connectors of the case. There are no PCIe or any other slots there, and there is no processor to drive any such cards. > The idea would be for the tape drive to operate via SAS 99% of the time > but occasionally move it elsewhere and easily access via USB (from any > desktop or laptop). > > Somebody has done it before on a factory level: > https://www.fujifilm.com/in/en/business/data-management/datastorage/lto-tape-drive/brochure > but I would prefer not to be limited and locked to this one particular > model + software. Apparently this is indeed a custom solution adding a USB3 interface - probably as some kind of adapter between the drive (and I bet that the drive itself has only a native SAS interface), similar to the adapters you find in many HDD enclosures converting SATA to USB. And this is certainly not a PCIe card either. > I'm assuming that I should still be able to run Bacula with the above? I would think so, too. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr. 5, 82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and en- gineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
