The first release of the new SCSI2Pi project is available. SCSI2Pi aims at improving the SCSI emulation and tool support for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board. The first release offers numerous enhancements compared to PiSCSI, e.g. higher speed and Debian binary installation packages. No time-consuming compilation is required anymore.
The most important improvements compared to PiSCSI 23.11.01:
- Binaries available as Debian packages, i.e. there is no time-consuming compilation
- Support for SASI hard drives (testers needed)
- Improved compatibility with the SCSI standard, especially in initiator mode
- About 5% higher transfer rates (measured with a Pi 4)
- DaynaPort emulation requires up to 16 MB less memory, in particular relevant for Pis with little RAM
- Enhanced initiator mode support, e.g. for backing up/restoring hard drives
- SCSI2Pi can be managed via SCSI. There are already tools for the Atari, but this is not an Atari-specific feature.
- Optional (faster) compilation just for the devices actually needed saves compilation time
- Numerous code optimizations
- More unit tests for better test coverage
- Internal (in-process) bus for advanced testing
- Less dependencies on special Pi hardware features
- Compiles on up to date releases of FreeBSD and NetBSD, which is in particular useful for developers
- Partially adapted to macos (except for the linking stage), also useful for developers