Whether it be SCSI, processor-direct or another means, I would love to have an INTERNAL / flash drive in my Mac 512 (or 128) /. Just slip a 32MB flash card in and go! / It would be super quiet, quite fast and would draw virtually no power. It would put off no heat and put no strain on the power supply.

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There's one possibility that occurs to me: the "FlashPath" is a floppy disk shaped adapter for SmartMedia flash cards, which goes into a floppy drive. Sony made them for their floppy-based Mavica digital cameras. I have no idea if they require drivers on a Mac - ISTR they needed them on PCs. If they do require drivers, then they would not be bootable and would need to be used with a second internal or external floppy drive - if Mac drivers even exist. And they will be slow. They also may not be compatible with 400k/800k drives.

Still, worth looking into perhaps?

Apart from that, seems to me someone needs to get busy with a microcontroller and the serial port, or a logic analyzer and reverse engineer the floppy drive connection protocol.