I have seen some posts in the past about mixed success with the SCM PCD-50B SCSI reader. I had no problems with mine, so I thought I'd clear up any doubt about their utility.
For those wanting to use the PCD-50B SCSI multi-slot flash reader:
- It works!
- You may need newer firmware to write banks to flash (Although I have never needed this with my 3 PCD-50Bs I've installed over the years)
- You can only use the PCMCIA slot, which defaults to LUN 0. E-Mu products AFAIK don't support multiple LUNs.
- You can boot to this drive if the ID is set to 1 and you let the CF card format completely (may need to specify Interleave when formatting). Verification takes hours.
- If you're not going to boot of the CF, you can interrupt the verification process and start copying banks to the CF cards.
- I use 1GB CF cards. I have tried all kinds of brands and they all seem to work so far. (This may not be true with the AztecMonster internal CF reader.)
So I'm not sure why Jay had problems getting the PCD-50B to work, but I have one (where the floppy drive was) and a built-in CF reader (AztecMonster) in my EIII and they both work great! I had to build a custom SCSI cable long enough to go beyond the space where the HD lives, for the SCSI CF reader (which is terminated as it's the end of the bus).
-Dave
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