USB --> SCSI

Speed is not a big issue (9-tracks aren't very fast to begin with)...but I'm not sure what flavor of scsi that the 7980s has...I suspect single-ended, so would something With ultra scsi work (is it backward compatible with single-ended)? If drivers are an issue, might it work if I spun up a virtual machine under windows-7 that ran an older os (either windows or linux)?...could the windows-7 machine just pass the USB device to the vm (and the vm would have drivers for it), without the host OS needing drivers? -Bob -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:47 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: USB --> SCSI On 27 March 2015 at 17:36, Bob Brown <bbrown at harpercollege.edu> wrote: I believe they existed, long ago. USB1 ones were terribly terribly slow. By the USB2 era, SCSI was disappearing, but they might exist. USB3, forget it. But I suspect that a device that old (we're talking turn-of-the-century) won't have drivers for Win7. You *might* have a chance of getting it working on 32-bit Win7. E.g. http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/usb_scsi/usb2xchange/ http://www.synchrotech.com/product-usb/usb2-uscsi-conv_01.html Note the supported OSes. This looks more promising... http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/U2SCX.html -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) ? +420 702 829 053 (?R)