I'm in the process of building out a small email server (as evident in my last posting)... I had thought there'd be a backup server for my use in the data center it'll be in, but I found out today - or rather I was handed today a "DAT autochanger - ADIC model 1200D" ... It's a 12 tape - tape backup thingy - never dealt with one before :) I need to hook this up to my server that is running Fedora 2 - I'm pretty new with this kind of hardware so bear with me. On the back of the server there's a expansion card sporting two miniature looking Centronics connectors - I figured that they must be a couple of VHDCI SCSI connectors, because the card that they are on looks exactly like a MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (series 428) card pictured here: http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?item=2zxxzMGRAID-428-3 So i looks like I have two places to "hang" SCSI devices off the server. Now on to the Tape drive thingy. It has two big ol' Centronix looking connectors on the back - I assume one for the cable from the server and the other to go to the next SCSI device or be terminated. Do I have to find a cable with the proper VHDCI connector on one side and a Centronix one on the other - or get a stack of adaptors? Will this work - using the MegaRAID card's external SCSI connector to connect a tape backup autochanger? Anyone have experience running a ADIC 1200D DAT autochanger from Linux? I got some hits on google pointing to the mtx-general mailing list, but most of the messages are from a few years back, so I don't know if they're still valid. thanks john _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list