I guess my suggestion depends on how much data you are backing up, but with
the price of drives today have you considered backing up to a 1TB drive. I
just got a 1TB for $85.

I realize you still have to find a card to read your data off the tape at
some point. 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Richard
Wilson
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:31 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Looking for compatable SCSI laptop interface

Looking for a recommendation -- my Linux workstation died (power supply
fried and took the mother board with it) and it was my backup server.  I
have a SE SCSI tape drive (DLT-3) and a bunch of tapes with all my personal
backups on them with no way to read them.

My laptop has USB 2 ports and a card interface -- has anyone come across a
USB to SCSI converter that works with Linux or a card that does the same?
Fortunately I don't need anything urgently from the backups, but I'd like to
start running them again soon.

I do have an old working SE SCSI card I can put in another tower with an
available PCI slot, but I'm leaning towards getting another laptop if I can
get the tapes working again.

Thanks in advance,

Richard Wilson
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