On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:32:32AM -0500, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > Back when dinosaurs still ran the world (ie: +/- 72 million years ago) > the standard for high performance mass storage was SCSI hard drives. > Of course SCSI has been superseded by other storage solutions, but for > various reasons some people want / need to keep those old machines > that use SCSI drives in operation. The problem is those SCSI drives > are old and failing. I've run across a solution for anyone desperate > to keep one of those old machines in operation, BlueSCSI. In summary > BlueSCSI uses an Arduino series Pico controller and a microSD card to > mimic a SCSI hard drive. All the files required to build a BlueSCSI > are available for free here : > > https://bluescsi.com/ > > With those files you can build a BlueSCSI from top to bottom. > Alternatively, you can get it as a kit or pre-assembled. > > I don't (any longer) have any machines that use SCSI, but I know our > community has a few people that love those old servers so might be > interested in a way to keep those dinosaurs up and crawling with new > hardware.
I use the zuluscsi for some of my machines. Nice device. Can even emulate multiple scsi harddisk and optical drives at the same time using different files on the SD card. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
