BlueSCSI Laptop to external WiFi Antenna?

[Phipli]

No. CF cards speak IDE/ATA natively and offer better speeds

Yes. I think I remember suggesting CF to Trash80 before and he had a reason for not wanting it, so I was trying to account for that.

Plus it is easier to get an SD card adapter than buy / find a large industrial CF card for a good price.

Mine has a CF card in it.

 

[luRaichu]

Yep, but as I said, I don't like tying up the external SCSi connector

What else do you need to plug in there?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

What else do you need to plug in there?

I have vintage scanners, a film scanner and external SCSI HDDs & CDs, including PowerCD. Various peripheral fun and games.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

No. CF cards can speak IDE/ATA natively and offer better speeds

IDE is very marginally faster than the SCSI bus on those machines. Without contention if more than one SCSI peripheral is present, which would be CD in the case in Q630-P6360 et al.. Someone here or there did the benchmarking to prove Primitive IDE implementations were as fast or slightly faster than SCSI. Misguided LEM LORE has IDE "cheapening" the early machines, implying lower performance reflexively.

Such nonsense on LEM included lambasting the PB190 as having only a 16bit CF bus for its NIC as opposed to the Blackbirds onboard setup. NIC on the 'Birds would be the same 16bit interface. The entire "slow 030 I/O bus" of the 'Birds is 16bit as are all other bridged implementations right up thru the 1400.

I use CF/Adapter in my three slot 6400 testbed in the DIGITAL Mini-Tower lashup, works a dream