Hi
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Another quick update on S2I project editted for privacy and brevity.? More progress
yesterday and really great news.? Still developmental obviously but am actively looking
for additional test cases to shake out the firmware.? Old PC/XTs with?SCSI controllers and
the early Macs seem like the logical starting point but there could be others.? Unexpected
bonus is some interaction with SCSI-2 but that's out of scope for the project.? If
someone gets it working then that's great but not the primary objective.
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If you want to help with compatibility testing you'll need a serial terminal or PC
running along side to capture the diagnostic message stream.? That maybe a useful feature
in its own right being able to peer into previously hidden SCSI command interaction
stream.
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Please contact me at LYNCHAJ at
YAHOO.COM if you have more questions or want more
information.? Better yet S2I is a discussion topic at N8VEM mailing list.
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Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
Subject: [N8VEM: 15431] Re: SCSI2IDE Progress
To: n8vem at
googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 11:42 PM
Hi Folks,
Another quick progress report on SCSI2IDE. ?I got a decent amount of time to work on it
this weekend and now have all basic functionality working. ?The firmware now reasonably
emulates a SCSI 20MB hard disk. ?On both of my test environments, I am able to partition,
format, read/write, and boot DOS 3.3.
I am now at a point where I would like to solicit help with compatibility testing.
?I'm sure it will be a bit rough at first, but I need feedback on other platforms.
?Please refer to the Wiki
folder:?http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=SC…ypes.
?You can download the firmware in the file S2I Firmware.zip. ?There is a page with more
detailed information called S2I Status. ?It is easy to build the firmware and there is a
pre-built ROM in there if you don't want to do a build.
The one warning is that it is currently very slow. ?I have gobs of diagnostics being spit
out to the serial port (necessary evil while we work through compatibility) and there are
many code optimizations I have not yet bothered with.
There is still a long way to go, but it is awesome to finally see this board doing what it
was intended to. ?:-)
Thanks,