30 Jul
2014
30 Jul
'14
8:10 a.m.
On Jul 30, 2014 7:32 AM, "Tom Uban" <uban at ubanproductions.com> wrote:
I began looking for a USB to SCSI adapter and it appears
that while there have been a couple over the years, they
have all been discontinued. I suppose this is due to the
lack of demand, but then when I look for used ones, they
are all (what I consider to be) ridiculously priced. What's
the deal? Does anyone have a solution for this? I suppose
an old mac or sun box and an ethernet is the solution I'll
use as I want to be able to load up images onto SCSI drives
for my PDP11 w/SCSI interface.
--tom
I think you're right that there was probably never much demand for USB SCSI
adapters, at least not as high volume consumer items. There was probably
only a short window of time before every consumer device which used to have
a SCSI interface went with native USB. If they never sold in large numbers
originally but you have a reason to want one now you run into the supply
and demand issue when things are hard to find now.
Back to your problem at hand, a native SCSI adapter in any sort of machine
would almost certainly be a simpler solution, except for the issue of space
taken up by a system that you might not otherwise use often.
I set up a lunch box Pentium II system with an Adaptec PCI SCSI adapter
that I drag out when I want to mess around with SCSI drives that I want to
set up for older systems.