Looking for compatable SCSI laptop interface

[Alan Dayley]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Richard Wilson <relw at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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.

A quick Google search on "pccard scsi hba" brings this link near the top:

http://www.synchrotech.com/products/scsi-io-pcmcia-pc_cardbus_02.html

So, they exist but I don't know how good they are.  Years ago I used
one from Adaptec but I don't know if they still make one.

Alan