Re: SCSI drive replacement using SD?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Per Olofsson <magervalp@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014, at 11:16 PM, Justin wrote:
>> Has anyone seen a decent solution for a solid state replacement?  I’m
>> thinking I’d like to do this for some of my Amiga and Mac systems where
>> the drives are ancient and noisy as hell.  I can’t tell anymore whether
>> they were always this loud or if they’re dying…
>
> In my A4000 I have an Acard AEC-7720U SCSI-IDE bridge and an 8 GB
> CompactFlash card. I've used it both with a CyberSCSI Mk-II and a
> Fastlane Z3, both giving me about 7 MB/s at nearly no CPU load.
> http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=23&prod_no=AEC-7720U&type1_idno=2&ino=43
>
> There are also a few interesting solutions from Artmix, but all the
> information is in Japanese: http://www.artmix.com/j_home.html

I had this discussion in another forum a month ago, and discovered
that artmix has an eBay shop for English speaking customers:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/artmix

Some mac enthusiast has been collecting this on a wiki page that was
useful when I did my research:

http://wiki.68kmla.org/SCSI_hard_disk_replacement_options#IDE_and_Flash


The person who wanted the adapter for his 50p SCSI on an old DEC ended
up buying the AztecMonster II SCSI->SATA-converter. Haven't gotten a
report on how well it works yet.

Regards,
-- 
Peter Bortas

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