Atto expresspci ul5d lp scsi adapter driver for mac

I've read online that even though the drivers for this card supposedly only work up to 10.8.5 many have had success up to 10.11.x - so that inspired confidence, along with the fact that the card itself cost me less than a evening drinking with mates at the pub. An ATTO UL5D ExpressPCI SCSI 320 card was located. So onto ebay I went after doing some research. I kept the LVD/SE cable though, as their new tape backup was SAS based.

Also I left it in the windows computer that belonged to the business as I knew it wasn't going to work in OS X. Obviously the Adaptec card wont work as adaptec stopped producing driver back in the powerpc days (correct me if I am wrong). The next step was to transfer the tape drive to my hack, and try to get it working. I was handed some more blank cartridges and a cleaning tape for the drive. Fortunatly, I was just able to leave the screaming jet engine of a tape drive running in a corner doing its thing, and pumped up the volume of my sound system to drown out the noise The morning following the next I had erased all the cartridges and took the windows computer back to the business. Each tape took AGES to erase - apparently a full wipe is one of the longest operations you can do with one of these.

This I did with HP Library and Tape Tools with a windows box, which had an adaptec 29320LPE card in it. I'm on good terms with the business owner that gave me the drives and he knows I'll do as requested. I've been recently lucky lately when it comes to hardware - I was given an LTO-4 tape drive for $100 and a few cartridges which had been used once on the proviso I erased the tapes. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

Atto expresspci ul5d lp scsi adapter driver for mac