Hi

I need to connect a Dell poweredge SDLT LVD drive (pretty sure its
just branded) to my home network - problem is, none of the home PC's
have a PCI-X bus, so the Adaptec 39160 I borrowed isn't going to work
...

e.g. will the Adaptec 29160 (Ultra 160) work? Is there anything
cheaper than this?

(Note that performance and throughput are not a consideration - this
is a one-off exercise)

Regards, thanks

Stuart

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If simply getting the data
from the drive is all you
need to do, any Wide SCSI
PCI card will do the trick
-- LVD drives will
"downshift" to a slower SE
transceiver transparently
as long as the bus is
properly connected and
terminated.  Non-LVD Wide
SCSI cards are very cheap
on the used and surplus
markets, typically around
$12 on eBay.

nonnb@webmail.co.za (Stuart) wrote:

>Hi
>
>I need to connect a Dell poweredge SDLT LVD drive (pretty sure its
>just branded) to my home network - problem is, none of the home PC's
>have a PCI-X bus, so the Adaptec 39160 I borrowed isn't going to work
>...
>
>e.g. will the Adaptec 29160 (Ultra 160) work? Is there anything
>cheaper than this?
>
>(Note that performance and throughput are not a consideration - this
>is a one-off exercise)
>
>Regards, thanks
>
>Stuart




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nonnb@webmail.co.za (Stuart) wrote in news:66f26287.0408301145.4bc28108
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> I need to connect a Dell poweredge SDLT LVD drive (pretty sure its
> just branded) to my home network - problem is, none of the home PC's
> have a PCI-X bus, so the Adaptec 39160 I borrowed isn't going to work
> ...

Yes, it will, PCIX is backwards compatible and the cards will work in any
pci slot. I have several PCI-X Emulex cards running in 33mhz/32bit pci
slots.

> e.g. will the Adaptec 29160 (Ultra 160) work? Is there anything
> cheaper than this?

See Bruce's reply.

--
/Jesper Monsted

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"Jesper Monsted" <newsspam@rootweiler.dk.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns9556561C392E5news
spamrootweilerdk@62.243.74.163
> nonnb@webmail.co.za (Stuart) wrote in news:66f26287.0408301145.4bc28108@po
sting.google.com:
> 
>
> Yes, it will, PCI-X is backwards compatible

To a certain degree.

> and the cards will work in any pci slot.
> I have several PCI-X Emulex cards running in 33mhz/32bit pci slots.

The 39160 isn't even PCI-X.

> 
>
> See Bruce's reply.

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