SCSIknife is a compact and versatile solid state replacement solution for SCSI disk drives. SCSIknife emulates hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, removal media, magneto-optical and tape drives from disk images files. SCSIknife is easy to set up and use, by simply placing disk image files on a SD or MicroSD card. SCSIknife can also be used in host/initiator mode, where it will automatically copy the content of an SCSI drive straight to the SD card without computer intervention.

SCSIknife runs the popular open-source ZuluSCSI pico firmware and is simple to use and configure.

SCSIknife is available in three different configurations:

• SCSIknife Desktop, with an HE-10 50-pin connector.
• SCSIknife Mobile, with a 2.5" hard drive connector.
• SCSIknife Multi, with all connectors fitted.

An optional SD card extender is also available with a 50 cm (20") ribbon cable, allowing to relocate the SD card slot away from the SCSIknife board.

Specifications:

• SCSI-1 (5 MB/s) and SCSI-2 (10 MB/s), actual 9.5 MB/s read and 6.0 MB/s write.
• SD or MicroSD card with quality spring-loaded push/push connectors.
• FAT32 and exFAT support for SD card format.
• USB-C connector.
• Emulate up to seven separate devices on the same SCSI bus.
• Act as both SCSI device and SCSI host.
• Powered from SCSI termination, from 4-pin Berg connector, or USB-C.
• Fully compatible with the open source ZuluSCSI™ Pico firmware
• Same compact footprint as a 2.5" hard disk drive.

Compatibility (may also work with systems not listed here):

Computer systems

• Apple IIgs (High speed SCSI controller card)
• Apple Lisa (Sun Remarketing SCSI card)
• Apple 68k Macintosh, Macintosh Portable and PowerBook (All)
• Apple PowerPC Macintosh and PowerBook (All)
• Applix 1616
• AT&T 3B2
• Atari Falcon
• Atari Mega ST 1 (ICD host adapter)
• Atari Mega STE
• Atari Stacy
• Atari TT030
• BBC Micro/Master (Akhter host adapter)
• Commodore Amiga 1200 (Typhoon accelerator card)
• Commodore Amiga 2000 (DKB RapidFire SCSI card)
• Commodore Amiga 3000
• Commodore Amiga 4000 (CyberStorm PPC)
• Commodore Amiga 500+ (GVP A530 card, Oktagon 508 SCSI card)
• Data General MV/2500DC†
• DEC AlphaStation
• DEC MicroVAX
• DEC PDP-11/73
• HP 9000/715
• HP Apollo 400/425
• HP PA-RISC (All)
• IBM RS/6000
• IMS MM/1
• Motorola System V/68
• Motorola System V/88
• NeXTcube (All)
• NeXTstation (All)
• RM Nimbus
• Sharp X68000 (SASI & SCSI)†
• Silicon Graphics (All)
• Solbourne S3000
• Sun Microsystems 68k workstations (All)
• Sun Microsystems SparcStation (All)
• Sun Microsystems UltraSparc (All)
• Symbolics Lisp Machine XL1200†
• TI-99/4A

Samplers

• Akai S1000, S1100†, S2000, S3200†, S3000XL, S5000, S6000, MPC2000XL, DPS 12, DR4, DR4VR
• Casio FZ-20M
• EMU Emulator E4X, E6400, Emax1, Emax2, EIIIXP, EIIIXS, Darwin, ESI2000, ESI4000, ESI32, Emulator EIVK
• Ensoniq ASR-X, ASR-10, EPS16+
• Fairlight Series III
• Korg Triton Studio
• Kurzweil K2000R, K2500XS, K2600
• Peavey SP
• Roland JS-30, W-30, VS2480, S-550, S-750, S-760, S-770, XV-5080, G1000
• Sequential Circuits Studio 440
• Synclavier 9600
• Waveframe 1000
• Yamaha A5000, A3000, EX5, EX5R, RS7000

Others

• HP 16601A, 16700A logic analyzers
• Fluke 9100 series
• Staubli JC4, JC5
• Grosse C12, C13, C14, C20
• Bonas CTR S250
• Capcom System III

†May require system specific configuration .ini file

Disclaimer

SCSIknife is licenced under the CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal. Sources for the SCSIknife hardware are available at https://github.com/Siliconinsid/SCSIknife.

SCSIknife is a ZuluSCSI™ Pico OSHW derivative compatible with the ZuluSCSI™ Pico firmware. ZuluSCSI™ is a registered trademark of Rabbit Hole Computing.