Is there a scsi to usb jump drive we can use to load the OS from ?

[djscratchd]

Is there a scsi to usb jump drive we can use to load the OS from ?

[djscratchd]

http://www.suntekstore.com/goods.php?id=10010828&utm_source=gbus&utm_campaign=gbus


could this be used as the floppy?



SFR1M44-U100 USB Floppy Drive Emulator is a floppy drive emulator that features high security data protection, easy installation and user-friendliness. This floppy drive emulator is great for industrial control equipment.
Description:
100% Brand new, never used
Housing Material: ABS
Color: Gray
Model: SFR1M44-U100
Use normal USB flash drive as the medium for transfer design.
34pin floppy driver interface, 5V DC power supply, easy to install.
Capacity: 1.44MB 2HD Cylinders: 80 Tracks: 160 Sectors/Track: 18 Bytes/Sector: 512 Data
Transfer rate: 500 kbps Encoding method: MFM.
100pcs partitions in USB flash drive can be used.
Built-in self-format function. (read relevant documents to use this function)
SFR1M44-U100 not support jumpers function
Floppy driver with below function needed:
Floppy driver with 34pin interface,and 5V DC power plug
Use 2HD flpppy disk with 1.44MB capacity
Format of disk : Cylinders: 80 Tracks: 160 Sectors/Track: 18 Bytes/Sector: 512 Date
Transfer rate: 500 kbps Encoding method: MFM
Suitable for industrial control equipment

[esynthesist]

could this be used as the floppy?

Probably not. The EIII requires 10 sectors/track, not 9 or 18.
This floppy emulator's firmware is configured to emulate standard DOS (720k DD and 1.44M HD) disks, it probably won't support more exotic disk formats, like the 800k DD format required by the EIII (and Emax).

A better solution would be the HxC, but it's more expensive.

[djscratchd]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SDF-HXC-Floppy-Emulator-3-5-floppy-drive-substitute-/181577336454?hash=item2a46da4686


this one?  ^^

[esynthesist]

Yes, it's also available directly from Lotharek's website: http://www.lotharek.pl/

Instead of a floppy drive replacement, a hard drive replacement (by a CF card reader) may be a good alternative as well.
Based on your recent messages on this forum I assume you have the same opinion :-)
If I remember well I succeeded once (as an experiment) to replace the EIII hard drive by a CF card solution, based on a generic IDE CF card reader (from the Conrad online shop) and an Acard U7720U SCSI-IDE adapter.
I didn't actually do a permanent installation of this replacement solution because my EIII hard drive is still operational and I'm using the Acard for other experiments in my studio as well. So I'll wait with permanently installing it in my EIII until the original hard drive dies...

 

[djscratchd]

I think that the ability to move files to the CF Card via the floppy drive CF would be better than an internal one so that maybe you could plug the CF into your pc and move patches to it. That would rock especially if we could start a patch repository for the EIII Patches...

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