SCSI-based floppy drives (3.5 or 5.25)

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 08:15:57 2000

Hi Jerome,

It is not that I was trying to keep the project hush, hush. I thought most
people would not be too interested in the dry details. The basic thing is I
need a floppy media that is SCSI as that is the only disk interface I have.
I am in the process of creating a truly standalone transputer workstation.
Transputers
usually use a host machine (PCs, SUNs, VAX, etc) for IO including disk
storage, video,
etc. I do not want to do this. I currently have a parallel port tram,
video tram, scsi tram,
ethernet trams, gpib tram and whole box full of computation trams. I am
missing some pieces
like the serial tram and the eeprom tram (which I need be able to do
standalone booting).
All of this is going to be housed using a PC motherboard which is only going
to be used as
a ISA bus chasis providing power for the cards. I am going to remove ALL PC
related boards
from the motherboard. I could use a ZIP drive, etc, but a true floppy
drive will make it more realistic.
It is basically my version of the ATW800 atari transputer workstation, but
only better (hopefully). Thanks
for your help....


Ram
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 08:15:57 BST