I’ve had nothing but miserable failure<\/a> with Blue Pill boards, and very quickly moved on to STM32F4 board that actually work. It didn’t fill me with much hope that the board I got with my kit looked like this, end on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite that oddness, it all soldered up fine (the surface-mount card slot was a little fiddly) and it fits inside the Classic II’s cavernously empty shell wherever I choose to stick it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I thought I knew what I was doing in making filesystem images (hence my recent nonsense anent HFS utilities<\/a>), but clearly I was wrong. The 2 GB images I made in Basilisk II weren’t recognized at all. For now, I’m booting from one of the RaSCSI canned boot images<\/a> plus a couple of the blank formatted drive images<\/a> to put my own custom system on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m trying to get as much as possible set up on the Micro-SD card while I can still access it, as the Classic II’s case is not something you can pop open on a whim. It needs a special long-thin Torx T15 driver to even get the case partially open, then you have to ease\/fight the case the rest of the way. Aside from the faint ponk of dodgy analogue board caps (I’ll fix ’em one day, I promise!), you have to remember to tiptoe around the life-ending voltages lurking at the back of the CRT when you’re working there. Retrotechnology: it smells bad and<\/span> it can kill you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n A feature I really appreciate with the BlueSCSI is that it dumps a status log on the card every time it boots. It took me a while to get the hang of naming images correctly, but I’d have been absolutely lost without logs with this level of detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I’ve got four SCSI drives pretending to live on this card, and even if one of them’s not quite named correctly (HD40 MacHD-1000MB.hda<\/em> should be called HD40_512<\/span> MacHD-1000MB.hda<\/em>), it’s been found okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like old (as in 68K old) Apple Macintoshes, but I don’t like their hard drives. Apple used SCSI drives, which were super-cool at the time (multiple drives on one bus! extra devices like SCSI scanners, too!) but now seem an absolute pain. There may be a lot to complain about with USB storage, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"digging the BlueSCSI, a cheap SCSI drive replacement for old computers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[3191,3024,2556,3285],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-bluepill","tag-macintosh","tag-retrocomputing","tag-scsi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16829,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/16829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"end-on](\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/two_headed_boi-1024x1024.jpg\")
There are two of ____.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBlueSCSI <-> SD - https:\/\/github.com\/erichelgeson\/BlueSCSI\n VERSION: 1.0-20210410\n DEBUG:0 SCSI_SELECT:0 SDFAT_FILE_TYPE:3\n SdFat version: 2.0.6\n SdFat Max FileName Length: 32\n Initialized SD Card - lets go!\n Not an image: LOG.txt\n Imagefile: HD10_512 753.hda \/ 41943040bytes \/ 40960KiB \/ 40MiB\n Imagefile: HD20_512 BS.hda \/ 41943040bytes \/ 40960KiB \/ 40MiB\n Imagefile: HD40 MacHD-1000MB.hda \/ 1048576000bytes \/ 1024000KiB \/ 1000MiB\n Imagefile: HD30_512 MacHD-500MB.hda \/ 524288000bytes \/ 512000KiB \/ 500MiB\n ID:LUN0:LUN1:\n 0:----:----:\n 1: 512:----:\n 2: 512:----:\n 3: 512:----:\n 4: 512:----:\n 5:----:----:\n 6:----:----:\n Finished initialization of SCSI Devices - Entering main loop.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n