Looking for an SSD to SCSI bridge compatible with DEC
SCSI2SD seems to be a reasonable candidate for solid-state SCSI these days. I don't own one but the Web searching I've done, and the few contacts I've had in the vintage community including old Apple Macs, seems to suggest this is something that functions and is available from a few sources. I'd like to hear more about it from others in our community, and of course if it's succcessful AND when it fails. The problem with most of these hobby-class solutions, is when the person offering them or supporting them loses interest. Myself, I'm not interested in making PC boards and gathering parts, for this class of product - I want to buy it ready for use, but with software available and people working on it. With those criteria, $70 plus shipping is reasonable to me, and my impression is that it's made by a couple of people and one of them appears "commercial". For "DEC" use, find various Web communities discussing this device and look for "DEC". Herb Johnson
I'm using it with my H11 and it works great. The configuration software works fine once you get a handle on how to configure and specify a drive unit. I bought a 3D case from Etsy and I use a regular 25-pin shielded SCSI cable which is NOT native for the H11. So, I had to cobble something together internally to get a DB25 on the rear panel of the H11. Speed is very reasonable, although I have no real way to perform empirical tests. Get Outlook for iOS _____________________________ From: Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 6:20 PM Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for an SSD to SCSI bridge compatible with DEC To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Herb Johnson <hjohnson@retrotechnology.info> SCSI2SD seems to be a reasonable candidate for solid-state SCSI these days. I don't own one but the Web searching I've done, and the few contacts I've had in the vintage community including old Apple Macs, seems to suggest this is something that functions and is available from a few sources. I'd like to hear more about it from others in our community, and of course if it's succcessful AND when it fails. The problem with most of these hobby-class solutions, is when the person offering them or supporting them loses interest. Myself, I'm not interested in making PC boards and gathering parts, for this class of product - I want to buy it ready for use, but with software available and people working on it. With those criteria, $70 plus shipping is reasonable to me, and my impression is that it's made by a couple of people and one of them appears "commercial". For "DEC" use, find various Web communities discussing this device and look for "DEC". Herb Johnson
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 08 January 2017 23:18 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Herb Johnson <hjohnson@retrotechnology.info> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for an SSD to SCSI bridge compatible with DEC
SCSI2SD seems to be a reasonable candidate for solid-state SCSI these days. I don't own one but the Web searching I've done, and the few contacts I've had in the vintage community including old Apple Macs, seems to suggest this is something that functions and is available from a few sources. I'd like to hear more about it from others in our community, and of course if it's succcessful AND when it fails.
The problem with most of these hobby-class solutions, is when the person offering them or supporting them loses interest. Myself, I'm not interested in making PC boards and gathering parts, for this class of product - I want to buy it ready for use, but with software available and people working on it. With those criteria, $70 plus shipping is reasonable to me, and my impression is that it's made by a couple of people and one of them appears "commercial".
For "DEC" use, find various Web communities discussing this device and look for "DEC".
Herb Johnson
Herb, I have a couple, but I managed to remove the surface mount mini USB from one. I haven't made much use of it yet, but its completely open source so I could even make my own... Dave
On Jan 8, 2017, at 6:18 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
SCSI2SD seems to be a reasonable candidate for solid-state SCSI these days. I don't own one but the Web searching I've done, and the few contacts I've had in the vintage community including old Apple Macs, seems to suggest this is something that functions and is available from a few sources. I'd like to hear more about it from others in our community, and of course if it's succcessful AND when it fails.
The problem with most of these hobby-class solutions, is when the person offering them or supporting them loses interest. Myself, I'm not interested in making PC boards and gathering parts, for this class of product - I want to buy it ready for use, but with software available and people working on it. With those criteria, $70 plus shipping is reasonable to me, and my impression is that it's made by a couple of people and one of them appears "commercial".
For "DEC" use, find various Web communities discussing this device and look for "DEC".
Herb Johnson
I have two that I use. One with my NeXT and one with a compact Mac. I am not connecting and disconnecting them frequently, just popping the micro sd card in and out from time to time (on the Mac, not the NeXT at least so far) I have zero complaints and have yet to run into a problem. Formatting the card was straight forward, the software allows you to set unique SCSI IDs for various partitions (4 total if memory serves) along with numerous other settings (parity/nonparity, etc) I have never tried it on a machine not listed in the supported devices and my main focus is Apple machines so thats the limit of my experience(I know, but NeXT is at least related to Apple :-) Tony
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