Hi everyone. I'm in the middle of some home renovation, and I decided that I want to reduce the space occupied by my all my stuff.
At the moment I have a whole tower pc with windows 11 that I use just to run my external sas hp lto5 drive, through THIS an lsi9211, which is a pcie 2.0 x8 lanes, everything working perfectly fine.
I would like to remove the tower pc, if only I can connect the tape drive to a generic usb to use it with just the laptop when I need.
I found few adapters like this and I pulled the trigger.
But it's not working, as I understand because my hba card is a x8 lanes, but all this adapters looks like they're just x4 lanes. I tried just covering the contacts on the card that correspond to the 5,6,7,8 lanes, as seen somewhere, but it's not working.
Does anybody ever worked something like this out? For what I understand, there are not pcie x8 adapters that are affordable... are there any hba card that are x4 lanes? I found something on ebay, like this, somewhere in the description says x8, but pictures and specifics says x4. Would this card work with my drive or am I missing something else?
Damn it would be a game changer for me a usbc tape drive...