First post, by stamasd
I'm working on a project in which I need to add a SCSI device to a motherboard. In particular, a HDD because this particular motherboard cannot boot Linux except from SCSI devices (I will post details at the appropriate time...). The motherboard itself doesn't have a SCSI controller, so I need to add one. That part is taken care of. I do have SCSI drives, cables, terminators etc, so that's not a problem either. The issue is, the SCSI drives that I have are old. All SCSI drives in existence are old, they're not made anymore so eventually, probably soon, they will start dying.
I would like to find a solution where I can attach current commodity drives (SATA, either mechanical or SSD) to the SCSI bus. Apparently at some point such adapters were made, but either aren't available anymore or sell for outrageous prices. For instance: https://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/ $300; https://www.datapro.net/products/aztecmonster … ta-adapter.html not available anymore etc.
Does anyone here use such an adapter, and do you have any idea where I could find one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I already checked the most obvious sources like ebay, Amazon, Newegg etc.
( there's this https://www.addonics.com/products/adsalvd160.php which has 2 problems: still costs too much, and converts to a LVD bus which I can't use)
(edit there's this on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/ACARD-AEC-7732U-Ultr … id=122675057007 but it's only good for optical drives, doesn't work for HDDs according to http://www.acard.com/index.files/Page385.htm - the seller has some of the ones for HDDs but they're $1000 each 😲 )
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O