SCSI Floppy drive?

[darefail]

Hi, any info about this?
It is a common floppy drive with a pcb screwed underneath and a 50 pin connector.
Why would a floppy drive be needed somewhere with SCSI? Does it have any advantages?

Thanks.

 

[nickrb]

I know external SCSI floppy drives were used on old macs after apple stopped making them with floppy ports.

 

[darefail]

I know external SCSI floppy drives were used on old macs after apple stopped making them with floppy ports.

Do you think it can work with Amiga?
Has a lot of jumper pins but is it really necessary for example to reroute ready signal to pin 34, as it will be connected to a A590 maybe?
You know.. Just for fun...

 

[a.mi.goun]

It would be nice to try it on Amiga scsi bus. I think it should work (with proper mountlist).

 

[Boing-ball]

A lot of SCSI floppy drives are used in Sound Sampler systems. But ask why would you want to use it on an Amiga? It’s still a floppy drive with limited storage. I don’t think you would see any more benefit.

 

[darefail]

A lot of SCSI floppy drives are used in Sound Sampler systems. But ask why would you want to use it on an Amiga? It’s still a floppy drive with limited storage. I don’t think you would see any more benefit.

Personally I wouldn't have any benefit if I had 1TB HDD through usb3 speed in my Amiga.
I just wanted to know why a floppy drive was made to work through scsi and why it was preffered against ide or normal 34pin floppy connector.
About why using it.. It just keeps be busy

 

[qz3fwd]

I have seen them for industrial / commercial devices, I think servers. In fact there are SuperDisk SCSI drives similar to this out there.

 

[darefail]

I have seen them for industrial / commercial devices, I think servers. In fact there are SuperDisk SCSI drives similar to this out there.

Had a quick search and superdisk is backwards compatible with 1.44 disks but it can read and write faster than normal drives.

 

[polarstar]

The Plexus P/20 which Adrian Black featured in his channel a little while ago also had a floppy drive connected to the SCSI controller by means of an interposer card that translated SCSI commands to the Shugart floppy interface. I suppose a reason to do such things would be to simplify drivers (only need to implement SCSI), and/or to offload some of the processing logic out of the CPU.