Fw: [N8VEM: 15431] Re: SCSI2IDE Progress

Hi ? Another quick update on S2I project editted for privacy and brevity.? More progress yesterday and really great news.? Still developmental obviously but am actively looking for additional test cases to shake out the firmware.? Old PC/XTs with?SCSI controllers and the early Macs seem like the logical starting point but there could be others.? Unexpected bonus is some interaction with SCSI-2 but that's out of scope for the project.? If someone gets it working then that's great but not the primary objective. ? If you want to help with compatibility testing you'll need a serial terminal or PC running along side to capture the diagnostic message stream.? That maybe a useful feature in its own right being able to peer into previously hidden SCSI command interaction stream. ? Please contact me at LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM if you have more questions or want more information.? Better yet S2I is a discussion topic at N8VEM mailing list. ? Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch Subject: [N8VEM: 15431] Re: SCSI2IDE Progress To: n8vem at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 11:42 PM Hi Folks, Another quick progress report on SCSI2IDE. ?I got a decent amount of time to work on it this weekend and now have all basic functionality working. ?The firmware now reasonably emulates a SCSI 20MB hard disk. ?On both of my test environments, I am able to partition, format, read/write, and boot DOS 3.3. I am now at a point where I would like to solicit help with compatibility testing. ?I'm sure it will be a bit rough at first, but I need feedback on other platforms. ?Please refer to the Wiki folder:?http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=SC…ypes. ?You can download the firmware in the file S2I Firmware.zip. ?There is a page with more detailed information called S2I Status. ?It is easy to build the firmware and there is a pre-built ROM in there if you don't want to do a build. The one warning is that it is currently very slow. ?I have gobs of diagnostics being spit out to the serial port (necessary evil while we work through compatibility) and there are many code optimizations I have not yet bothered with. There is still a long way to go, but it is awesome to finally see this board doing what it was intended to. ?:-) Thanks,