[rescue] Various machines for sale

Mike Spooner mikes at aalin.co.uk
Wed Jan 8 10:47:34 EST 2025


Does anyone else remember SCSI-attached serial-ports, such as the external Magma multi-port units?

-- Mike

On 8 January 2025 15:01:43 GMT, Mouse via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>> I've seen SCSI floppy drives before.
>> I crave one. :-)
>
>I used to own one.  I might even still have it somewhere.
>
>I found it useful as a test case for SCSI code, as a way of finding
>code which assumes everything uses 512-byte sectors.  (I used to have a
>disk drive which was formatted with some unusual sector size.  My
>memory is handing me 508 bytes, but it's also handing me the impression
>that the size was larger than the usual 512; I don't know which, if
>either, to believe.  I think that disk finally died.)
>
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