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Nah, not unless we want to receive a _different_ letter from Columbia Pictures ;-)

As with most things, it depends on a variety of factors. On the Amiga 3000, for instance, the built-in SCSI controller is the 53C80, which is the primary factor limiting throughput, not the ZuluSCSI itself. There are a variety of SCSI controllers available for the Amiga, some Zorro-based, most...

ZuluSCSI was not designed as a replacement for SCSI2SD V6. It was designed due to ongoing component shortages which have made it impossible to purchase the semiconductors necessary to assemble more SCSI2D V5's. It performs better than SCSI2SD V5.x by a wide margin, and for many people, it's a...

You're right to be confused. As of yesterday afternoon/evening, AzulSCSI has been re-named to ZuluSCSI. This was a direct result of legal threats. You can probably guess the origin.

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Wow, that shouldn't have happened. We'll get it replaced for you if you want, or send you a DB25F to DB25F adapter, your choice. Please reply to your order confirmation e-mail and we'll get things sorted for you.

Correct, the standard connector for external SCSI connections is male. Only the direct-attach SCSI2SD-V5.5-style devices have a male pinout, as they're designed to be directly attached to a DB25 SCSI host port, which is always female on Macs, as well as nearly all other scenarios. Essentially...

Yes! we implemented a custom bootloader which simply looks for a file on the SD card, at power up. If it's there, it self-updates the firmware, which takes about 1.5 seconds. It then removes this firmware update file (so it doesn't go in to an infinite loop), and resets itself. The silicon...

Good question. This is not the answer you're probably hoping for, but as one might expect, "it depends". In some areas, it's slower, and in others, it's faster, particularly when it comes to read performance. When it comes to read performance, on nearly all 68K and PowerPC Macs, AzulSCSI can...

Yes :) Stay tuned.

SCSI2SD is not a trademarkable term. We tried, and failed. It's a matter of public record in TESS. You say that as if we're not aware of this reality already. Neither does claiming to not be running a commercial operation, when you actually are. There's plenty of hypocracy on the other side...

BlueSCSI is _not_ a registered trademark, nor is there a pending registration. Check TESS yourself. Choosing to not answer is not dodging. We considered many other names. If we'd named the product "BluuSCSI", "BlauSCSI", or something else that sounds remotely similar (Azul doesn't), it might be...

Correct. Yes, if you purchase it with the DB25 connector installed, you can use either connector, but not both at the same time. The IDC connector is soldered on at the fatory. The DB25 connector is soldered on by us, when someone buys that configuration. The AzulSCSI PCB layout is derived from...

Agreed. There's definitely a place for BlueSCSI, but AzulSCSI has been tested to be up to three times faster at reads, assuming you're using it on a machine that doesn't have an 8MHz 68000 CPU. Both SCSI2SD and AzulSCSI can emulate CD-ROM drives with 512 byte sectors. The default with AzulSCSI...

Thanks for the backhanded (and inaccurate) compliment, but as you know full well, the primary contribution from the SCSI2SD V6 code-base was the SCSI command handling code. The rest is (now) almost entirely original code, but it didn't start that way. Claiming there's _no relation_ is not only...

Update 2022-05-08: This product has been re-named ZuluSCSI After months of development and extensive testing, It's finally time to pull back the curtains on our new SCSI emulation product, AzulSCSI. Brought to you by the ongoing global electronics component shortages, which have made it...

And now it exists! We just received the first 18 fully-assembled SCSI2SD V5.0c's. Another 150+ of them will ship soon. These are the first SCSI2SD's we've assembled in the US. We just put them through their paces, and if anyone else is interested in them, SCSI2SD V5.0c runs unmodified V4/V5...

Yesterday, we received the initial qualification batch of our follow-on SCSI2SD V5.0 design, the V5.0c. The board dimensions are 90mm by 60mm, or 3.54 inches by 2.4 inches. The height is 12mm. This differs from the previous version 5.0, being slightly more narrow (the same width as V5.1/V5.2/V6)...

Our original response to this seems to have been lost during the Great Forum Database Implosion(tm) of 2021, so we'll re-state here. The module we designed for is the "Mini ENC28J60", which is a ten-pin module, not 12-pin.

SCSI2SD V5 firmware is very mature at this point, having been iterated and improved upon since ~2014. Around ten thousand V5.x boards are in use in the wild, and V5.2 uses that same firmware, so to somehow twist that in to "it's not ready yet, I should wait" is a bit laughable. V5.2 can do...