you could add the ability to Identify a target as a specific drive, ie any identity information that a normal drive would give would be given by the emulated target when the specific drive information is available and the target is set to give out specific information.
SCSI scanner support, just add a USB or HDMI webcam and you can scan a page.

I guess ZIP, WORM, JAZZ, MO drives all fall under disk support.

price between $100 - $200 would be a steal.

Also what do you mean with, you have working prototypes but no product ?
What's the cost of those prototypes, what specifications do they have ?

weedeewee wrote on 2024-05-06, 15:35:

you could add the ability to Identify a target as a specific drive, ie any identity information that a normal drive would give would be given by the emulated target when the specific drive information is available and the target is set to give out specific information.
SCSI scanner support, just add a USB or HDMI webcam and you can scan a page.

I can do that. I'm working on tape support now, I was thinking of printer support as well so systems where printing is a convenient way to get data out could be used.

weedeewee wrote on 2024-05-06, 15:35:

I guess ZIP, WORM, JAZZ, MO drives all fall under disk support.

I don't have that planned, but generally speaking most of these (Except for super drives and I think LS120?) are just removable block devices so I think they won't need special handling. If you think having explicit support for any of these is useful I can add it. WORM is a bit different as emulating a cd/dvd writer is a whole other can of worms. I totally can do that though. I couldn't think of a good reason why to add it!

weedeewee wrote on 2024-05-06, 15:35:

price between $100 - $200 would be a steal.
Also what do you mean with, you have working prototypes but no product ?
What's the cost of those prototypes, what specifications do they have ?

The prototypes are different components (some off the shelf, some designed by me) still hooked together with ribbon cables. So I don't have a single board yet. Cost of the prototypes right now is about $250, but that is in part because it is 6 PCBs.

Well, your project sounds really cool.

I forgot about tape drives and ls120. If you have removable drive support even floppy drives would be possible. I was thinking maybe even a bluray drive would be possible but, were there any bluray scsi drives made and the drm features would likely be a nightmare,.
Didn't know there were any scsi printers out there, that sounds like heavy industrial stuff not something any con/prosumer would ever have.

What's with the backwards compatibility? Will it only support ultra 2 or can it go down to plain old 5Mbit/s narrow SCSI ?

weedeewee wrote on 2024-05-06, 19:19:

Well, your project sounds really cool.

Thank you!

weedeewee wrote on 2024-05-06, 19:19:

What's with the backwards compatibility? Will it only support ultra 2 or can it go down to plain old 5Mbit/s narrow SCSI ?

It is backwards compatible, I'm working out some bugs with narrow support, but it should work with everything down from ultra 2.

How will you produce / release it?

I don't know yet, I guess I'll order a bunch and put them on some kind of web store? I haven't really thought about that part yet.

I have a large collection of *nix workstations and servers that would love these. I’ll be watching with interest.

- Alex

I wonder now what would be required to make it work in an old AS/400 system which uses 12 UW-SCSI hard drives, scsi tape drive & scsi cdrom.

I have no idea if the system can boot with generic drives, nor do i have cdrom or tape to re-install the software. figuring that out might be a hassle.

This comes to the right time, after I just completed my first BlueSCSI last weekend.
Workstations and servers with different flavours of Unix would be my target too.
Disk only support would be sufficient for me, but a choice of different connectors 50 pin narrow, 68pin wide or 80pin SCA would be nice.
Adding a HVD option needed for some HP 9000 boxed would be nice too.
M2 NVME seems to be the storage medium of choice due to best price/capacity relations.