I'm looking for a well-supported ExpressCard or PCMCIA/CardBus SCSI card that can do at least FastSCSI (Narrow, Wide not necessary) that is supported by CentOS 7. I have an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D, but it doesn't seem to be supported (it's previously supported by the aha152x driver).
Any ideas are welcomed, other than 'just use a desktop.' I am not sure a USB or Firewire to SCSI bridge will work for what I need, which is connection to an audio-capable DDS2 drive (SGI Firmware Seagate/Conner/ArDAT Peregrine 4326 that is from an SGI system). Yeah, I know I can use DATman on IRIX (I have a pair of O2's and a purple Indigo2 w/ SolidIMPACT), but going forward I'd like to use my laptop.
On 2/23/2016 10:19 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
I'm looking for a well-supported ExpressCard or PCMCIA/CardBus SCSI card that can do at least FastSCSI (Narrow, Wide not necessary) that is supported by CentOS 7. I have an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D, but it doesn't seem to be supported (it's previously supported by the aha152x driver).
Any ideas are welcomed, other than 'just use a desktop.' I am not sure a USB or Firewire to SCSI bridge will work for what I need, which is connection to an audio-capable DDS2 drive (SGI Firmware Seagate/Conner/ArDAT Peregrine 4326 that is from an SGI system). Yeah, I know I can use DATman on IRIX (I have a pair of O2's and a purple Indigo2 w/ SolidIMPACT), but going forward I'd like to use my laptop.
if it wasn't a laptop, I'd suggest looking for a NCR/Symbios/LSI based SCSI card with a 53c8xx chip, but I've only ever seen these on ISA and PCI, never on expresscard or pcmcia
parallel SCSI was long dead when pci-express came out, and expresscard is based on PCI-E, so the odds of finding anything there are really slim ... and cardbus/pcmcia has been dead for several years.
On 02/23/2016 02:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
if it wasn't a laptop, I'd suggest looking for a NCR/Symbios/LSI based SCSI card with a 53c8xx chip, but I've only ever seen these on ISA and PCI, never on expresscard or pcmcia
Yeah, I have a few of those left over from an AlphaServer 2100 build......
parallel SCSI was long dead when pci-express came out, and expresscard is based on PCI-E, so the odds of finding anything there are really slim ... and cardbus/pcmcia has been dead for several years.
Hmm, this does give me an idea. There are 'bridge boxes' out there that will take an ExpressCard slot and give you a couple of PCI or PCIe slots; I do have an Adaptec U320 PCIe x1 controller here along with several PCI SCSI cards of various types, and one of these bridge boxes/bus extenders might serve the purpose. Thanks, John, you gave me an idea.....
On 2/23/2016 10:19 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Any ideas are welcomed, other than 'just use a desktop.' I am not sure a USB or Firewire to SCSI bridge will work for what I need, which is connection to an audio-capable DDS2 drive (SGI Firmware Seagate/Conner/ArDAT Peregrine 4326 that is from an SGI system). Yeah, I know I can use DATman on IRIX (I have a pair of O2's and a purple Indigo2 w/ SolidIMPACT), but going forward I'd like to use my laptop.
do people really still use DAT audio tape ? all the pro audio recording I know of nowdays is done to direct to disk or SD card or whatever. I use a tascam dr07 digital audio recorder, which records direct to SD, a single 32gb SD card can hold like 40+ hours of DAT or CD grade PCM audio.
On 02/23/2016 02:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
do people really still use DAT audio tape ? all the pro audio recording I know of nowdays is done to direct to disk or SD card or whatever. I use a tascam dr07 digital audio recorder, which records direct to SD, a single 32gb SD card can hold like 40+ hours of DAT or CD grade PCM audio.
I personally use an Edirol R-09 direct-to-SD 24-bit WAV recorder myself, but I was given an archive of several dozen audio DATs to produce.
On 02/23/2016 02:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/23/2016 10:19 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Any ideas are welcomed, other than 'just use a desktop.' I am not sure a USB or Firewire to SCSI bridge will work for what I need, which is connection to an audio-capable DDS2 drive (SGI Firmware Seagate/Conner/ArDAT Peregrine 4326 that is from an SGI system). Yeah, I know I can use DATman on IRIX (I have a pair of O2's and a purple Indigo2 w/ SolidIMPACT), but going forward I'd like to use my laptop.
do people really still use DAT audio tape ?
For what it's worth, I dug up out of my collection of 'stuff' a Xircom PortGear USB-SCSI dongle, bought the appropriate adapter from 25 to 50 pin, and connected it to an SGI-OEM Archive Peregrine/Python drive. Here's what CentOS 7 sees: ++++++ [10991.409385] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci [10991.509177] usb 4-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1645, idProduct=0007 [10991.509186] usb 4-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5 [10991.509191] usb 4-1.1: Product: Entrega USB to SCSI Converter [10991.509195] usb 4-1.1: Manufacturer: Entrega Technologies Inc. [10991.509200] usb 4-1.1: SerialNumber: 07 [10991.515903] usb-storage 4-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [10991.516044] usb-storage 4-1.1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 1645 pid 0007: 4 [10991.516591] scsi host7: usb-storage 4-1.1:1.0 [10997.259938] scsi 7:0:2:0: Sequential-Access ARCHIVE Python 01931-XXX 5.63 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [11006.734904] scsi 7:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 1 [11006.745965] st: Version 20101219, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 [11006.747264] st 7:0:2:0: Attached scsi tape st0 [11006.747272] st 7:0:2:0: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B) [11006.752472] osst :I: Tape driver with OnStream support version 0.99.4 osst :I: $Id: osst.c,v 1.73 2005/01/01 21:13:34 wriede Exp $ +++++
Hmmm, this might just work. The firmware rev is good (01931-XXX 5.63) and it IS an SGI-branded drive..... now to see if the known Linux software from ten years ago will even compile, much less run, on C7.
I have a couple of the SGI-branded external Sony SDT9000's on the way, which are considered more reliable for audio extraction, but the Peregrine was cheap ($25 including shipping on eBay) and makes a good test.
But I was very pleasantly surprised to see CentOS 7 pick up the Xircom/Entrega PGSCSI and run with it; nice. So anyone else looking for laptop SCSI solutions, if you can find a Xircom PortGear USB-SCSI adapter it does look like it is supported by C7.
On 03/16/2016 01:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
But I was very pleasantly surprised to see CentOS 7 pick up the Xircom/Entrega PGSCSI and run with it; nice. So anyone else looking for laptop SCSI solutions, if you can find a Xircom PortGear USB-SCSI adapter it does look like it is supported by C7.
And, after compiling the read_dat program ( https://github.com/andrew-taylor/read_dat ) the thing actual works, and I'm 'ripping' an audio DAT right now (to which I own the copyright, incidentally) at 2x speed and the audio is good.....
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