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

[Brian Lanning]

I picked up an external scsi case with 5 devices in it.  Two plextor
cdroms, a zip 250 drive, and most interestingly a 3.5" floppy drive
and some sort of memory card reader.  This furthers my collection of
internal and external almost-useless removable media devices.  :-)  It
was sold as an IBM branded device, although I knew before hand that it
wasn't.  But there is an IBM sticker on the back of the case that says
M/T 1609-F21 and a serial number.  Not sure what's up with that.
Maybe it's just an asset tag.

So what could I attach this to?  It has one centronics port on the
back, so it must be terminated inside somewhere.  I know the cdroms
and zip drive would be recognized instantly by an amiga.  I'm not sure
what the floppy and memory card reader would look like.  For example,
supposing it's a 1.44mb floppy drive, what format would an amiga try
to write to a drive like this?  I would think that a disk format is OS
dependent.  I do have drivers to read fat partitions, so maybe it
could read PC floppies.  Or maybe since it's high density, it could
read/write those 1.76mb amiga format high density floppies... or maybe
not since it's scsi and the amiga specific floppy drives tend to be
modified in an amiga-only way.

I couldn't tell what kind of floppy drive is in there since I didn't
completely take it apart, but from the back, it looks like a normal
3.5" floppy drive in a 5.25" scsi 50-pin adapter.  Linux would
probably autodetect and work with all of them.  What would MacOS do?

Also, the memory card reader has a slot for a type 1 or 2 pcmcia card.
 What could I put in this?  A pcmcia flash memory drive seems obvious.
 What else?

brian