On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Britt Dodd <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM, GuyWithGuitars <[email protected]> wrote:
>> <snip>
<snip>
> Certainly what would be needed to facilitate this solution would be
> something in the form of a micro controller or processor that
> interpreted SCSI commands, and then translated them into IDE
> instructions for talking to/getting data from/writing data to a IDE
> controller (on the drives). At this point, since IDE is the "legacy"
> technology now (not obsolete but definitely not commonplace anymore),
> i'd venture on creating a SCSI to SATA adaptor, since IIRC SATA
> actually speaks some form of SCSI-ish commands (at least SAS drives do
> at least).

This same project has been started over and over in a number of
places.  There is a prototype solution that is close to usable, talked
about here:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?22906-SCSI-1-to-from-IDE-drive-converter

It's a SCSI-1 to IDE adapter, as is obvious from the title.  Take a
look, before you go too far down the road of creating your own.

- Alex

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