Using a memory stick instead of a hard drive on 68k Macs — #3

Post #3 by jukingeo

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 - 14:04
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/using-a-memory-stick-instead-of-a-hard-drive-on-68k-macs.19791/

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Its practically one of those "Holy Grail" ideas....it'd be wonderful if such a device existed, and it'd no doubt be extremely popular if such a device existed, unfortunately it doesn't, and I can't see it ever happening. The closest thing you can really get would be a CompactFlash card, which you could use via a SCSI -> IDE adaptor, and then an IDE -> CompactFlash adaptor. Or if you're made of money, a SCSI -> SATA adaptor and a SATA SSD. Those are really the only ways to get solid state storage on a vintage Mac, there's simply no easy way to connect USB devices to SCSI - while there were chipsets made for converting USB to SCSI in order to connect a SCSI device to a USB bus, they only go one way, there were no chipsets ever made for converting SCSI to USB.

Heck, I had to ask! But it does sound like the SCSI-IDE-FLASH would come closer to reality. That would be an interesting setup...the main question would be if you could boot from it.

Geo