Using 90's tech to connect SCSI devices to modern computers in 2022
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2022
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Back in the 80s and 90s, it was common to use SCSI devices on Macintosh and Amiga computers. Can we use these on Windows 10 and MacOS in 2022?
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RaSCSI project and an issue about giving it a similar feature to this device:
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The reason they banged on the iMac was it took SCSI ports, serial and ADB ports off the computer, but if you were a dedicated Mac user you probably had SCSI peripherals like external drives and scanners that you needed until you could get USB stuff. These were quite valuable for that reason.
I used SCSI very much in the nineties on my PC using an Adaptec 2940 controller. If bus termination was right, there were much less problems as with IDE. SCSI-HDDs were very reliable. I still have an Adaptec 29160 controller in my Windows 10 PC, connected via a PCIe to PCI adapter, to read my 25 years old HDDs and DDS tapes. It simply works.
I'll admit I'm not entirely surprised that it works just fine on modern systems. USB Mass Storage
You'd asked why we didn't see more of these adapters anymore and I think it's just a consequence of it being the nexus of
I love this kind of experimentation. Forcing legacy hardware onto modern OS.
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On the enterprise side, high-performance SCSI HDD systems were widely deployed.
The most sensational thing in this video is that Windows finally managed to estimate a time to completion correctly in version 10.
One of the things I enjoy about this channel, is Adrian's joyous laughter when something works. Always cheers me up!
If you ever have a situation where you don't have working drivers for modern windows, it's very easy to set up a VirtualBox VM with e.g. Windows XP and route the USB device to that. You can also setup shared folders to easily transfer over any data or other stuff you might need to interact with the device. Much more convenient than using a seperate machine and USB dongle.
Dude, that was awesome! I love getting different generations of hardware to talk to each other. So cool!
I could have guessed, but it never occurred to me that there's a dd version for Windows. I may just back up my Amiga CF card in the same way. Super useful!
Your troubleshooting logic is infectious! Thank You
I'd imagine the adapter requiring ID 0 for the bare drives is because it does support daisy-chaining from what the manual said. If you're able, try using that SyQuest drive again as the first in the chain, and add a second device off of there as ID 1.
I love this old school data transfer with weird adapters stuff. It's usually a pain getting everything working, but once it's there, it's super satisfying
The original RaSCSI for Raspberry Pi shall support creating images of SCSI HDDs, I have not tested it myself but is part of the Japanese documentation mentioned as initiator mode..
I must have said, "Whoa," out loud half a dozen times watching this. It just kept getting better every step. That is
SCSI to USB is almost impossible to find these days. In fact I found it so hard that I ultimately gave up, imported a PCMCIA to SCSI card from Japan and then the relevant converters to make that work with a hard drive.