[cctalk] Re: Digital Intelligence UltraBlock-SCSI bridge to USB/FW

I've got several different versions of this. They came with the EnCase Forensic Imager package. EnCase got picked up by Tableau back in the day, and at some point apparently OpenText bought them. I don't do forensics any more, but EnCase is/was the gold standard in US courts for forensic recovery of digital media; that is, if you can show proper use of the tool, opposing counsel can't nit-pick the provenance of the data (yes, I know there's more to it than that...this isn't a digital forensics lecture). It's been a while since I mucked with them, but in my experience the devices are self-contained functionally and try to be as transparent as possible to the OS, so you shouldn't need a device driver just to use them as a bridge (other than the device driver you'd need to use the target device). Travis pretty much has it right in how to deal with them. In this case, the only 'active' part the device visibly participates in is blocking writes if you've selected that on the device. If you're doing actual recovery, there's more software involved (mostly preventing the OS from butting in and changing anything in the datastream, AFAIK). And yes, I've used them to mount old SCSI drives on USB without issue, assuming there's nothing underlying like odd block sizes going on. KJ On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM Travis Pierce via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: