Adaptec ACB-4070 disk controller + SCSI tape drive?

[HC Johnson]

In article <9003270228.aa19003 at PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>, baxter at zola.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ira Baxter) writes:
> 
> I have a WD 1006 controller and RLL drives (a combination with which I
> am pretty happy) but, alas, no tape backup.  I see that Adaptec offers
> an ACB-4070 controller, which appears to handle RLL drives and
> provides a SCSI interface.

Save your money.  The 4070 controller is SCSI in, RLL out.

You still need a board for your PC to generate SCSI.  Then you
can connect a 4070 for your drives and a Adaptec 3xxx board to
drive a raw cartridge tape (qic-32 interface).

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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