On 12/1/11 12:10 PM, "Matthew Hudson" <hexsane at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?22906-SCSI-1-to-from…
E-drive-converter&highlight=SCSI
-Matt
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Philip Pemberton
> <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>wrote:
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> 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!"
>
Actually, a low cost device based on a microcontroller would be sweet. I am
assembling one of those prototype SCSI<->IDE controllers and so far I'm into
it around $30 in parts beyond the board.