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HP Ultrium LTO-5 Tape Drive and HBA

Hi

Our windows host which was connected to the tape drive recently died, it was connected with an LSI Logic pci-x HBA 3Gb/s.
Library: MSL G3 Series
Drive: HP Ultrium 5-SCSI

The new host is a 2012 R2 Server and we'll need a new HBA.

Not sure which HBA to choose, there seem to be a lot to of them and can't really find anywhere on HP sites what types they are supporting except for their own.

Can we just buy any HBA with SAS that supports 2012 R2 and connect it to the tape ?
Anyone know of a card with PCI-E, 6GB/s SAS that's decent and works with HP Ultrium LTO-5 ?

Regards.

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gheist

Just to add a bit - SAS smart arrays support external SAS connector with tape drive.
SATA no for obvious reasons.
Can you get PCI IDs (from device properies) of your LSI card? so we can check against windows HCL - maybe old adapter will work just fine.

Lenblock

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Hi

The old HBA was a: LSI SAS3801X, PCI-X.
Would like our new card to have PCI-E.

The OLD server was a Dell.

The new server will be a Dell R630, Windows 2012 R2.

Great if you could check compatibility, but is SPOCK supported for Dell servers ?

gheist

http://www.dell.com/SAS

Spock is well supported on Enterpise class spaceships

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