...very interesting discussion on this adapter. I just ordered one
to give it a try on my Rolms: For the Nova compatible (16xx) and
the later Eclipse compatible machines (MSE14) there exists a SASI/SCSI
board (type 4100) which I have got one and which might "talk" to this
adapter.
BTW: One problem with the old MFM HDDs is, that the controller had
to be informed on the geometry of the harddrive. Rolm solved this
problem by using track0, head0, sector0 to store a configuration
block on the harddrive and the first thing their MFM->SASI controller
does, is to read the configuration data from the harddrive itself.
Of course the price for this is incompatibility with the standard,
the lost cylinder0 and the need for a special formatting routine.
Best regards,
Erik.
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> [140130
13:03]:
Just saw this on Erik's web site, and
hadn't seen it mentioned here
http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD
Currently getting around 900kb/sec R/W
Though not nearly so far along the N8VEM people are developing a
SCSI2IDE board as well and looking for people to test on different
hardware.
http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/page/57640284/SCSI2IDE
Todd