On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Philip Pemberton wrote:
On 01/12/11 04:03, Tom wrote:
At 07:47 PM 11/30/2011, you wrote:
m88k Systems use standard SCSI and can use
anything up to 2GB without a
problem. I have DG/UX 5.?? on CD and 4.?? on Tape here.
As far as I know, the one we have uses standard SCSI (as opposed to
what? Diff?) as well.
All this talk of SCSI has piqued my curiosity... maybe it's time for another
product...
Would anyone be interested in a device with the footprint of a 3.5in hard
disk drive, which allowed SD or CompactFlash cards to be connected to a SCSI
bus?
I'm sitting here looking at one at the moment. It's an SCM PCD-P50B. As
recently as a month ago, they were available new from:
http://a4000t.com/
for $62.00 US.
Perhaps even with the option of emulating SCSI CD-ROM
drives (including those
pesky 512-byte block drives), or even multiple devices at a time ("this
partition contains a CD image and is SCSI dev 5, this one is a 1GB hard drive
on dev 4, and this is a 100MB read-only HDD on dev 6").
The SCM unit maps the various cards to LUNs, which admittedly is not
supported by much of anything classic.
Steve
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