19 Mar
2019
19 Mar
'19
1:32 a.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:15:48PM -0400, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote:
What is the experience with the SCSI2SD with old
computers? It looks to be
SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 compatible and I see a lot of reports of usage on this
list. I am curious about how well it works and which version to get.
I own the V6 of this thing, and mostly used it with my HP9000/300 systems. In
the beginning i had some trouble with HP-UX running from it, but there were
some updates in the source repo end of last year which fixed these issues.
I never had a V5, so i can't compare.
Versions up to 5 seem to be GPLed and reasonably
available. V6 does not
seem to have schematics or boards open sourced and I haven't seen a
supplier for them. The web page lists some sources, but they don't have the
V6 available.
It looks like the V6 is not open because someone used the design without
following the GPL.
It's partly open-source. The source code for the ST micro controller is open,
but the FPGA part not. Only a binary blob is in the source repository.
Regards
Sven