SCSI Emulation

SCSI Disk and Tape Drive Emulation

We provide a wide range of Custom SCSI, PCMCIA and Flash Memory solutions primarily for customers struggling to maintain Legacy storage devices and techniques.

Telecom class 5 switches and Peripheral equipment

Customers running class 5 switches, channel banks, Digital cross-connect systems and telephony systems and Servers often run into storage media issues.  physical damages to aging magnetic tapes and SCSI disks are a challenge to most service providers. We are available to listen to your unique needs and offer targeted solutions for pretty much every telecom Equipment.
Solutions are turnkey and we assist at all stages to ensure smooth implementation.

Industrial manufacturing & Automation Platforms

Customers dealing with storage media in PLC and SCADA environment or manufacturing can leverage our solutions to overcome some of the challenges they face with old legacy storage devices.  We strive to ensure your crucial network database isn't compromised as you migrate to current technologies. Legacy Computer systems such as the Honeywell Measurex running Mxopen or the TDC2000 & 3000 universal can replace old or worn out tape and disk drives with a plug and play flash card solution with no moving parts.

Geophysical Surveying Service platform 

You are continuing to use legacy storage methods as they work well for you and you have no urgent need to upgrade. You also are using modern storage technologies and having issue with interoperability  with some of the legacy products. Our solutions are pug and play with no moving parts and where necessary, customized enclosures can be designed to accommodate unique requirements. Customers are encouraged to share their application interface issues in order for us to formulate relevant solutions.


All the services you need,
all in one place.

Our core products are in the replacement of legacy disk drives, Tape drives and Magneto Optical drives. We offer solid state replacement for old disk and tape drives where the data is stored on compact flash cards. We have solutions for platforms listed below and more.
The Rosemount RS3 Automation disk and tape solutions

The Honeywell MXopen Automation: disk and tape solutions

The Owens-Illinois (OI):  Disk and tape solutions.

The Pertec to Flash solution: This is a non-SCSI solution.

The STR-817 and STR-812 Tape drive replacement: A non-SCSI solution.
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Transport/Switching Equipment

In legacy telecom equipment, disk and tape drives have gotten old and difficult to maintain.  flash drive solution drastically reduce maintenance cost as they have no moving parts and support readily available flash technology. 

  • Lucent VCDX Sun Sparc  Computer
  • AT&T D5 Channel Bank 
  • Alcatel 1631 SX 
  • Alcatel 1631 LMC 
  • Nortel DMS10 
  • Nortel DMS 100
  • Nortel DMS 250
  • Tellabs 5500 and 532L
  • Ericsson AXE10
  • Avaya  Intuity Conversant, S3500 Call Pilot, Sunfire V880  and other SCSI based systems.

Telecom Tape to Compact Flash Disk Solution with STR812

A Virtual Tape Drive Emulation using Compact Flash cards
  • Directly replaces original tape drives.
  • Zero tape positioning times leading to quick read process.
  • Removable media can be treated as as single tape media.
  • Flash disks provide very rugged media.
  • Eliminates problems of slow backups and failing tape drive, 
  • Simple Plug & Play installation
  • A small, lightweight alternative to the original tape drive.
  • Solid State Solution with no moving parts.

Telecom SCSI to Compact Flash Disk & PCMCIA Solution

A Virtual SCSI Drive Emulation using Compact Flash cards
  • Directly replaces original SCSI drives.
  • Removable media can be treated as as single SCSI media.
  • Flash disks provide very rugged media.
  • Eliminates problems of failing Disk drive, 
  • Simple Plug & Play installation.
  • A small, lightweight alternative to the original SCSI drive.
  • Solid State Solution with no moving parts.

 Pertec to Compact Flash Disk Solution

A Virtual Pertec Emulation using Compact Flash cards
  • Emulates a 1600 or 6250 bpi @ 50 ips Pertec tape drive.
  • Start/stop and streaming modes and on-the-fly commands are supported.
  • The PCB is mounted in a small enclosure with universal power supply unit.
  • Pertec connectors are at the rear.
  • Solid State Pertec Tape drive.
  • The Pertec2Flash enclosure emulates a standard Pertec Tape drive to a Host. 
  • It has a Pertec interface on one side and a Compact Flash card on the other.
  • It allows data to be written and retrieved to a Compact Flash (CF) card.
  • The CF card can then be removed as if it were a regular tape.

Server Disk Equipment

Disk emulations solutions for the following systems
  • Applied Materials, AS/400, Cannon, DEC VAX, UVax and PDP-11, Data Technology Corp. DTC520B Dutch Signal, Encore, Evans & Sutherland, HP 9000 series 800, HP 9000 series 500, HP 9000 series 300, HP 1000 A Series, HP-IB Bering, I/O systems OMTI DTC51, Nicholet, Honeywell Measurex, MX-OPEN, Rosemount RS3, Sercel, Sun Spark, Thompson CSF, ABB Advant Operator Stations, HP B132L+ HP B180L 

Server Tapes to Compact Flash Disk Solution

 The unit is 3.5” form factor disk and has a standard SCSI1/SASI/SCSI2 Interface.
  • Directly replaces original tape drives on legacy Servers.
  • Zero tape positioning times leading to quick read process.
  • Removable media can be treated as as single tape media.
  • Flash disks provide very rugged media.
  • Eliminates problems of slow backups and failing tape drive. 
  • Simple Plug & Play installation.
  • A small, lightweight alternative to the original tape drive.
  • Solid State Solution with no moving parts.

Supported Operating Systems 

  • HP-UX, HP-RTE, HPL 
  • VMS, IRMx , OS/400  
  • GCOS, BOSS,  VXworks, 
  • OS2,  DEC, VMS, RSTS,
  •  OSF, QCs, MXopen, 
  • UNIX,  Solaris,  SASI

Fixed Disks emulations

Data is stored on an industry standard Compact Flash (CF card), which can be easily removed. The CF card can then be plugged into a Windows PC and used accordingly.
  • AVASTOR, Bering, COMPAQ, Conner, CDC,DEC, EPSOM, Fujitsu
  •  Hitachi, HP, IBM, IMPRIMIS,  ITOCHU,  KALOK,  Maxtor, Micropolis
  •  Miniscribe,  NCL NEC,  Newbury Data,  OPTIMA,  ORCA. 
  • Plus Develop, Quantum, Rodime,  Seagate, Sequel.  SIEMENS
  •  NIXDORF, SINGAPORE, Syquest,  TEAC,  TOSHIBA, Western Digital
  •  YE DATA 

Rosemount RS3 to Compact Flash Disk Solution

Industrial applications that still utilize Rosemount RS3 technology can leverage our SCSI solutions to replace old drives.
  • Plug & Play replacement for ageing RS3 SCSI disks & SCSI tape drives.
  • A Tape drive & Disk drive with no moving parts.
  • Uses standard Compact Flash (CF) cards.
  • Standard 3.5” form factor (DISK)
  • Standard 5.25” form factor (TAPE) CF card can be removed, and the data backed-up to a windows PC.
  • The same data can be copied back from Windows to a new CF card which can then be inserted back into the SCSICFDISK.
  • Standard 50 pin SCSI1/2 interface
  • Standard Molex style 5V only power connector
  • Internal active SCSI termination, disabled/enabled by jumper

MXopen to Compact Flash Disk Solution

Industrial Automation applications that still utilize Rosemount MXopen platform can leverage our SCSI solutions to replace old drives.
• Plug & Play replacement for ageing MXOPEN SCSI disks & SCSI tape drives.
• A Tape drive & Disc drive with no moving parts.
• Uses standard Compact Flash(CF) cards.
• Standard 3.5” form factor.
• CF card can be removed, and the data backed-up to a windows PC. 
• The same data can be copied back from Windows to a new CF card which can then be inserted back into the SCSICFDisk.
• Standard 50 pin SCSI1/2 interface.
• Standard molex style 5V only power connector.
• Internal active SCSI termination, disabled/enabled by jumper.
• Optional SCSI  enclosure available.

RWZ01 & RZ23 /RZ28 RZ29 SCSI Flash Disk for Vax& uVAx systems 

DEC/VAX and UVAX Emulation using Compact Flash cards
• SCSI solid state disk that uses an industry standard Compact Flash (CF Card) as its storage.
• The 3.5” form factor. It requires 5V only which is supplied via a
standard disk power connector.
• Standard SCSI2 interface. SCSI2 transfer rates of (up to) 10 Mbytes/sec.
• Disk capacities only limited by current CF cards (currently 32 GB)
• No moving parts. Overcome the reliability problems of ageing hard disks.
• The SCSI Flash Disk can be configured to emulate & replace those hard-to-find SCSI disks, or MO drives, or Floppy drives for legacy systems.
• Data is stored on a Compact Flash which can be easily removed.
• The CF card can then be plugged into a PC and the data archived.
• Low Power, 5V only less than 400Ma. 

Supported Hardware

Several OEM product are supported.
A few of them are listed below:
Fixed Disk Emulations
Conner CP30170E, Fujitsu M2512A, M2266SA, M2516S, M1606S-256
Hitachi DK515C, Hitachi DK516C, Maxtor XT-8760,Maxtor 7345S Maxtor LXT-535SY Quantum Atlas, Quantum Atlas, Fireball, Maverick, Seagate ST15230N, ST3390N, ST5660N, ST32272WC, ST4350N, Seagate ST3283N, ST31051, ST52160N, ST34520N, ST32272N, Seagate ST31200N, ST4350N, ST32151N, ST39173, ST34371, DEC RZ23, RZ28, RZ29, HP C2247-300, C2490A-001 
DEC RWZ01
Current Removable,Floppy and MO emulations
Fujitsu MCE3064SS,MCR3230SS, MCJ3230SS, MCM3064SS, MCM3130SS, HP C1113M, Konica OMD-19060, OMD-7071
IOMEGA ZIP, JAZ, Maxoptix T6-5200,T5-2600, Ricoh RO-5030E, 
RO-5060E, Sony SMO C301, SMO-F551, SMO-F541, Syquest M35004
Teac FC-1 
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