Great product at great price
For SCSIknife - ZuluSCSI™ compatible SCSI emulator
Being concerned about the longevity of the ~25 year old SCSI drive in my HP 16700A logic analyzer, I started to look for future proofing options. Other people have replaced the hard drive by SCSI2SD adaptors, but those tend to be fairly expensive(~120 USD not including shipping). Cheaper models exist, but still end up being >80 USD with shipping. This is further complicated by EU import fees. Then I found the SCSIknife, which is basically the same thing, but at only 49 USD *INCLUDING* shipping.
Placing the order during the weekend, the seller informed me on the very next work day that the unit was shipped. The delivery was in transit for 14 days, which was within the timeframe mentioned by the seller. The SCSIknife PCB itself was in an antistatic bag protected by a bubble-wrap padded envelope. Included was a short folder/sheet with specs and getting-started instructions.
Having no experience with SCSI-based disks, I had to spend some time getting familiar with the concept of termination and move some jumpers around, but following that, it was simply a matter of connecting the hard drive to the SCSIknife and cloning to the SD card started automatically. I couldn't get SD card reader mode to work, but was then informed by the seller that I needed to add an ini file with a specific string. This piece of information is "hidden" in the ZuluSCSI documentation, but the seller helped me out here.
The product itself works great. It has significantly sped up boot and read/write times of my aging logic analyzer and I'm no longer concerned about data loss in case of disk failure, as I can now easily back up the system hard disk.
All in all a great product at a very favorable price. Thanks a lot!
