Hello, with all this talk about SD card for QBUS machines, I was
wondering: SD (and SDHC) is easy to interface (if you're not too
concerned about speed) and has been attached to pretty much everything
under the sun; (well, I guess Jim is still working on the C= version
of IEEE-488) so is there anyone making an SD card drive for SCSI?
To me that would be a very versatile classic interface; I'd love to
have a dead-silent drive for my Amiga, Macs and Sparcs. ST owners
would like it too, I'm sure. I know there is one company making
SCSI-to-CF interfaces, aimed primarily at old synthesizers
(
http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/).
Unfortunately, the online "search space" is somewhat poisoned due to
the fact that most Linux/BSD/whatever OS's use a SCSI emulation to
access SD cards - but eyeballing several pages of results I didn't
find any SD-to-SCSI devices.
I certainly don't have the technical chops to make something like that
myself from scratch - but I'd guess a low-speed hack to do it could be
accomplished with a Atmel or similar chip with at least 21 IO pins (16
for the SCSI side, 5 for the SD card) but I don't know what kind of
line drivers would be needed on the SCSI side. Is anyone aware of
such a project in the works?
Joe.
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