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From: reg@sun4b.afwl.af.mil (Reg Clemens)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI controller for Sun 1/2" (Fujitsu M2444) tape
Message-ID: <1991May1.023955.22257@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil>
Date: 1 May 91 09:39:53 GMT
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In article <7395@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>Does anyone make a controller that will convert Sun's older 1/2"
>1600/6250 bpi tape drive to SCSI? I believe the drive is a Fujitsu M2444
>with a Pertec interface, which ordinarily is controlled by a Xylogics 472.
>
>What I would like to do is either replace the Pertec interface with a
>SCSI interface, or add a Pertec ->SCSI converter if such exists.
>
>-- 
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Im using a NCR ADP-53-01 with a SparcStation2, and an even older Sun
drive (a CDC 1600 bpi drive).  This is a free-standing SCSI<->Pertec
board (I mounted mine on the back of the tape drive) that can deal
with most 1600/3200/6250 bpi Pertec interface drives.

After modifying a couple of files and rebuilding the kernel the drive does
everything it could on the previous controler (but faster).
--

				Reg.Clemens
				clemens@afwl.af.mil