7 Nov
2013
7 Nov
'13
2:10 p.m.
Does anyone have any experience with replacing aging 50-pin (or even
68-pin and SCA) SCSI drives with a SCSI-to-CF bridge? I'm thinking
specifically for DEC hardware (PDP-11, VAX or Alpha).
In 2008, I bought an Acard AEC-7720U 50pin SCSI to IDE adapter for EUR 60 plus
an IDE to CF adapter from Hong Kong for less than EUR 2. Unfortunately, I think
the price of the former has increased since.
The setup works nicely with my Alphas to read CF cards directly and SD and XD
cards via yet more adapters purchased in a camera shop (except for some
unreliability reading the XD cards.) I've not done much writing.
A PWS 500a I was given had an IDE disk in it and a 68pin SCSI to IDE adapter
(also Acard) which seems to work nicely, although I have not tried booting
from it.
Also given the fact I have a good supply of drives, how cheap can
such bridges be obtained? Believe it or not, part of what I'm
thinking of is noise.
I've not had any noise problems with this setup :-)
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.