1 Dec
2011
1 Dec
'11
6:41 p.m.
On 12/1/2011 1:55 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
On 01/12/11 04:03, Tom wrote:
I was going to reply only off list, but the lemmings are all responding
here, so I will as well (and I'll send a personal email to boot).
Sign me up. I've been doing research for a few weeks on ways to
accomplish this, but had not thought to post to the list.
I have working SD routines, and a nice uC option (ST32F4 series), but
was stuck at the SCSI interface layer.
I was hoping to sidestep the need for an FPGA, just because they can
inflate the cost of a project quite a bit.
In any event, I am extremely interested in this. I have SD code,
FAT12/16/32 LFN code, and code to handle some image formats, though more
code is no doubt needed.
Jim
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Jim Brain
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At 07:47 PM 11/30/2011, you wrote:
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?
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").
Obviously device IDs would be fully configurable (so you could make it
pretend to be a Quantum Bigfoot or Seagate Cheetah if you needed to).
Multi-LUN and Multi-Device might have to be (low cost) pay-for
options, though...
"Answers on a self-addressed email, folks!"
Cheers, 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.