From Stewart.Dickson at mathart.org Tue Oct 28 09:46:29 2025 From: Stewart.Dickson at mathart.org (Stewart Dickson) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:46:29 -0700 Subject: [MCTG] External Multi-Terabyte Tape Drive for ATX Tower Computer? Message-ID: Hi, I just bought my 'retirement' computer.? (Mi job was eliminated at Wolfram Research) It is a ASRock ATX motherboard with these mysterious hidden SATA connectors. Anyway, I'm looking for a multi-terabyte tape backup system and I can only find drives with SCSI interfaces. Does anybody know how to connect such an (external) box to a motherboard like this? Thanks, -Stewart, https://mathart.org/related_links.html From bbird at mcn.org Tue Oct 28 12:42:23 2025 From: bbird at mcn.org (Bryan Bird) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:42:23 -0700 Subject: [MCTG] External Multi-Terabyte Tape Drive for ATX Tower Computer? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5675E0C8-4680-4378-9355-B95CC4B065BC@mcn.org> hey stewart, in my experience consumer ATX boards generally don?t implement Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), but i?m not sure what you?ve got there. your ?mysterious? headers might be SlimSAS (SFF-8654) that break out to SATA lanes or PCIe (check your BIOS). i wouldn't assume SAS unless it has a SAS controller. if no SAS, get yourself an HBA with SFF-8644, an SFF-8644?SFF-8644 cable (or 8644?8088 if you've an older drive). go fibre channel if you have that need (share the tape drive, or long runs) and have a larger budget. yours in storage, bryan > On Oct 28, 2025, at 09:46, Stewart Dickson wrote: > > Mendocino Coast Tech Guild - to facilitate technical education and community business startup. > Hi, > > > I just bought my 'retirement' computer. (Mi job was eliminated at Wolfram Research) > > It is a ASRock ATX motherboard with these mysterious hidden SATA connectors. > > Anyway, I'm looking for a multi-terabyte tape backup system and I can only find drives > > with SCSI interfaces. > > Does anybody know how to connect such an (external) box to a motherboard like this? > > > Thanks, > > > -Stewart, https://mathart.org/related_links.html > > > To unsubscribe from this list send MCTG-leave at lists.mcn.org > Process is complete then you respond to receipt of unsubscribe notice > For listserv problems contact omni at mcn.org