An interesting ebay find and what to do with scsi do-dads

[Jules Richardson]

Brian Lanning wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Chuck Guzis<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>> Take a close look at the floppy when you get a chance.  It might be
>> one of the Briar technology 20MB flopticals that can also do 1.44MB.
>> I've got one in a Tulin-branded box.
> 
>>From the back it looks like a garden variety floppy drive.  I'll take
> the whole thing apart when I get home from work tonight to see what's
> really in there.

Various manufacturers did SCSI<->floppy bridge boards; it's possible there's 
something like that lurking in there. You'll need OS-specific drivers if 
that's the case, though - read/write commands are probably standard SCSI (no 
reason really for them to be otherwise), but board configuration and low-level 
formatting will be vendor-specific.

I've not personally come across an all-in-one floppy drive that has a SCSI 
rather than floppy interface, although such things existed (as Chuck mentions, 
they'd often offer a larger capacity - sometimes via different media - as well 
as 'standard floppy'). Again, I suspect they need OS-specific drivers to make 
them do anything useful (at least on the format / config side; putting 
pre-formatted media in there might auto-magically appear like a small SCSI 
hard disk as far as the OS is concerned)

cheers

Jules