[geeks] SCSI for PowerBooks?

Mike Parson mparson at bl.org
Thu Aug 19 16:04:22 CDT 2004


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:59:49PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> Is that a driver issue?  I din't think you could make a scsi controller
> that couldn't deal with luns..

Dunno, just basing that on what I read on the websites.  They're also
single-device adapters, more for hooking up your old SCSI Zip drive up
via USB than that shelf of disks you liberated from your last job. =)

> 	Nick
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:19:42PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:07:53 -0500
>>> Matthew Braun <geeks at leydenjar.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've looked into SCSI->Firewire bridges,
>>
>>> USB(2) to SCSI?
>>
>> The USB->SCSI converters I've seen (From Adaptec and Iomega) don't do
>> multiple LUNs, so things like jukeboxes and changers tend to be out of
>> the question.
>>
>>> Why not connect some *ix machine to the jukebox, export a spool disk via
>>> network to the powerbook, rip raw pcm data from the CDs to the spool
>>> disk with the *ix machine and do the pcm to mp3 encoding on the
>>> powerbook?
>>
>> That's prolly what I would do, hook it up to a *nix box of some sort,
>> then use distmp3 to let as many boxes as I can hook up handle the
>> wav/pcm->mp3 part.

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Michael Parson
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