I'm still improving my new computer room. One of the most important
issues is data exchange. I don't have a floppy or other removable media
here so I have got a SCSI2SD card (version 5.5 with the DB25 connector
and with a nice translucent box).
It was a sort of mistake on my side because it has a male connector
(this specific version was meant for cable-free use with the Apple's
pizza boxes). So I have had to make a whole chain of adapters (big 50
pin to small 50 pin and 50 pin to 20 pin one). The whole thing
(including the SCSI2SD box itself) is about 100mm long.
It was necessary so set up the device with a Linux-based utility (I
failed do compiled it on the ppc64le so I have used my GPD Pocket -
which is an Intel-based computer - to run the utility). I have set the
SCSI2SD as a hard drive with the SCSI ID=4. I have inserted a 4GB
microSD card into the device.
I have connected the whole thing (plus an USB powerbank) to a SGI
Indigo with the IRIX 5.3. The only issue was that the IRIX Disk Manager
cannot indicate correct size of this "disk". But other tools see it
correctly. And speed is OK. It seems to be comparable with an actual
HDD (that's a big improvement over my old SCSI, version 2 which was
slow as hell on old SGIs).
I'm now copying date to the disk. The next step will be connecting it to
the other indigo in the my remote computer room...