New to this forum, but not new to Amiga, electronics, or writing code. I am also one of those who loves to read the manual, so if there is a FAQ, blog, Youtube, anything that I have missed in my search, please feel free to tell me to "read the manual," but please include a link
My goal is to image the hard drive in my A3000 to preserve data and software and then transfer it to an SD card to use with a ZuluSCSI RP2040 SCSI to SD adapter and in WinUAE. Seems simple enough and I've found some information such as on the Amiga Forever FAQ about how to make the image once the hard drive is connected to a PC. What I can't find is some tried and true method to actually connect my A3000 drive to a PC. SCSI cards for PCs seem to have been discontinued and I don't have a system running any older Windows OS, e.g.: Windows XP (I've seen some cards, like some from Adaptec, which are available but not supported by Adaptec anymore and there is no promise it will work in Windows 10 or 11). SCSI to USB adapters are ridiculously priced, but if that is what I have to do, I'll do it.
However... there seems to be another option that I have in hand, but am wary about diving in lest I destroy my A3000 HD in the process. The new ZuluSCSI RP2040 will directly image a hard drive to the SD card, see here:
https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI-firmware#scsi-initiator-modeIt looks to be straightforward, however, I've used those words before and then disaster struck.
Has anyone tried this on an Amiga hard drive or any SCSI hard drive? Is there a more detailed explanation on how to do this?
Thank you.
David