SCSI to IDE

[cctech at vax-11.org]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Robert Borsuk wrote:

> Instead of starting a flame war, or another "project" how about another solution:
>
> How about using a PC to emulate a SCSI drive?
>
> Found an interesting blurb at
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> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.misc/2008-02/msg00055.html
>
> Haven't pursued it any further but it might be simpler then building your own.
>
> Rob
>
>

Most SCSI drives (primarily CD-ROMs) I worked on had fairly simple 
interface logic, and the bulk of the heavy lifting was done by the 
microcontroller. I've been trying to track down a datasheet for one of the 
old Cirrus Logic SCSI CDROM chips, but thus far have been unable to. The 
chips I worked on had a moderate amount of automation (possibly even 
scatter-gather support), but in essence were just fancy DMA controllers 
that could handshake with a SCSI host.

Clint