I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 Server which came with a DLT drive that used an adapter to plug straight into the system board so that a SCSI card was not needed. The DLT drive was swapped out for a IDE HP Surestore DAT 24 drive (because of high tape costs on DLT’s) and the DAT24 has now died. I want to purchase a new one – probably a HP DAT40. The problem is that all the new drives are SCSI and I do not know for sure that I can use an adapter to install this drive. I have tried to purchase a drive from Dell but what they say about Dell support really is true and after three hours on the phone they gave me a two week ETA for $150.00 more than the HP would cost me. Can I use an adapter and plug this HP DAT40 into my server?
