On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:23:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote:
> > Questions restated: I need to move the data from the old machine to > > the new one. I'd like to be able to use the tape drive and some of the > > SCSI disks with a Bus Logic or other SCSI controller. Will I be able > > to use the disks unchanged on the machines with a Bus Logic SCSI > > controller? What about reading the tape drives? > > You'll be able to use them provided that the new machine uses the same type > of SCSI. If, for instance, then new machine is UW SCSI and the old one is > Fast SCSI, you'll need an adaptor device to hook up the old device (unless > your card also has a Fast SCSI connector). There are adaptors that allow backward conpatibility all the way to SCSI I, I know I am using a SCSI II controller on a couple of SCSI devices, but when I moved from An Adaptec 1540A to eht 2840, I had to reformat all drives, and I was desperately hopoing that newer controllers were better behaved. David
