[GTALUG] Keeping old machines running.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:32:32AM -0500, Colin McGregor via talk wrote:
> Back when dinosaurs still ran the world (ie: +/- 72 million years ago)
> the standard for high performance mass storage was SCSI hard drives.
> Of course SCSI has been superseded by other storage solutions, but for
> various reasons some people want / need to keep those old machines
> that use SCSI drives in operation. The problem is those SCSI drives
> are old and failing. I've run across a solution for anyone desperate
> to keep one of those old machines in operation, BlueSCSI. In summary
> BlueSCSI uses an Arduino series Pico controller and a microSD card to
> mimic a SCSI hard drive. All the files required to build a BlueSCSI
> are available for free here :
> 
> https://bluescsi.com/
> 
> With those files you can build a BlueSCSI from top to bottom.
> Alternatively, you can get it as a kit or pre-assembled.
> 
> I don't (any longer) have any machines that use SCSI, but I know our
> community has a few people that love those old servers so might be
> interested in a way to keep those dinosaurs up and crawling with new
> hardware.

I use the zuluscsi for some of my machines.  Nice device.  Can even
emulate multiple scsi harddisk and optical drives at the same time using
different files on the SD card.

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Len Sorensen