Squirrel scsi

[doctorq]

Your choice, but I believe you are wrong. I trasfered 3 gig MP3s to my Amiga using a 10 MBit ethernet card, and it took about an hour, or an hour and a half. Can't do that with CDs I believe.

I can mount my PC drives on my Amiga, and access them like it was an actual drive connected to the Amiga.

I hope the drivers for the SCSI interface turns up though.

[blobrana]

So,
What's the score with squirrelSCSI.driver software downloads?

Are the original ones sold with the squirrel not free?

You could download them from various sites, but i can't seem to find any...
Where are the links?
Why are ppl charging money for them?

Is it piracy when the manufacturers have already received monies from the original sell?
[Like when i buy a jar of coffee, i don't expect to pay extra for the jar...the jar is included in the total price]

So any opinion on this ppl?


[BTW, I`m going to start selling bit of Martian land tomorrow - so stay tuned]

[Hyperspeed]

Just for future reference and for other Squirrel users.

The Squirrel was made by HiSOFT and is a PCMCIA slot SCSI interface.
This means Small Computer Systems Interface and is a super fast
connection method for multimedia use.

Here are the brethren:
----------------------
Squirrel (Classic Squirrel) - the one you have
A SCSI-1 device, non-DMA PCMCIA fitting - approximately 300k/s max
speed. Had a white case.

The Whippet - A PCMCIA high-speed serial interface for internet
surfing that had a 230kbps maximum speed (4x a 56k modem). Black case.

Surf Squirrel - Combining the Classic Squirrel with The Whippet this
PCMCIA fitting multimedia expansion card had Fast SCSI-2 (non-DMA)
*and* a 230kbps serial port (9-pin).

As far as I can remember the Squirrels didn't get along with the
Blizzard 1260 and so needed a driver update. They require a terminator
at the end of the chain (a little terminator block on the back of your
CD-ROM or the terminator switch enabled).

:-)

Hope this is interesting to someone.

[Robert17]

Well, I ordered the driver from http://www.amigautils.co.uk/

I hope it's still alive, I'm trying to use the cd-rom with a Blizzard 1230 IV

It's in a black case and mounts with the squirrel logo facing down, if that's any help?

Robert

I'll probably need to get a new A1200 PCB anyway was I managed to break one of the PCMCIA pins whilst inserting this card the wrong way up (I thought it would go logo facing upwards) Doh!

[HopperJF]

I have Squirrel installation disks here.
PM me if you have nothing from that site, I'll run you a copy of them (they should be legal for copying - there just drivers?)

[Robert17]

Thanks Hopper, I may take you up on that if they don't arrive within a week, where abouts are you, I could mail you some floppies with a stamped addressed envelope maybe?

We'll see, as it is I don't know if it will work as I broke one of the end pins in my PCMCIA port, I suppose it's just one pin so if I'm lucky it may still work lol

[Robert17]

Hey hey just a quick update, I finally sorted out my pcmcia port and have the software I need, but low and behold, mr clever ebay man didn't send a scsi terminator in with the stuff so I still can't use my cd-rom, anyone know somewhere in the U.K I can buy a scsi terminator?

Thanks

Robert