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  Tandberg LTO drive (LTO 3503) / Thunderbolt

  Posted by Dave Leahy on February 10, 2016 at 7:37 am

  Good Morning

  I have a barely used Tandberg LTO drive (LTO 3503) and am wondering is there something I can use to connect it to a brand new macbook?

  Dave Leahy replied 10 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tim Jones

  February 10, 2016 at 5:57 pm

  It is a SAS, pSCSI, or Fibre-Channel version?

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  Neil Sadwelkar

  February 20, 2016 at 1:15 pm

  From Tandberg’s site, the LTO3503 is a SCSI external LTO-4 drive.
  To connect, you’ll need a SCSI card, and a cable.

  And that card has to go inside a Thunderbolt-PCIe case. And be supported by your MacOSX.

  Some cards here
  https://www.scsi4me.com/scsi_hba-controller-cards_for-macs.html

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  Tim Jones

  February 22, 2016 at 3:05 am

  … and, there are no pSCSI HBA’s that work in a Thunderbolt environment. We’re tried to hack an ATTO UL5D, but no luck.

  The last working pSCSI solution that we can get consistent functionality is the ATTO UL5D in a Mac Pro running OS X 10.5.8. The drivers simply either don’t work and are ignored if you force load them, or actually cause a boot-time crash under 10.9+

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  Dave Leahy

  March 11, 2016 at 3:28 pm

  thanks for reply it is a

  Tandberg 3503-LTO
  Product No EB656B#351

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