Mr Ian Primus wrote:
I know that Adaptec made a standalone SCSI-SMD bridge
board. I have one,
although I've never been able to get it to work. I got as far as
hand-crafting SCSI commands to try to get it to format the drive, and it
would sit there, device active, but the drive never stepped or seeked off
the first cylinder.
I wonder if it needs some vendor-specific command to define the attached drive
geometry before it'll do anything? Lots of old SCSI-to-something converters
worked that way. (Does it support - and return something sensible for - the
Inquiry command? Some converters did at least respond to that without any
initial setup, and it'd at least indicate that your board's partially
operational and listening)
cheers
Jules