#piscsi — Public Fediverse posts
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We now have 3000 members in our Open Retro Storage discord! We discuss open retro storage solutions like #bluescsi, #piscsi and #picoide.
Can remember years ago when it was just 10 or so people, my how retro has grown.
Come join in the fun https://discord.gg/GKcvtgU7P9
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We now have 3000 members in our Open Retro Storage discord! We discuss open retro storage solutions like #bluescsi, #piscsi and #picoide.
Can remember years ago when it was just 10 or so people, my how retro has grown.
Come join in the fun https://discord.gg/GKcvtgU7P9
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@lukaszjokiel I prefer #PiSCSI since it has some more features like the Web control interface or the printer device
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Successfully printed the case. Everything assembled together. Now I can start messing around with PiSCSI and Mac SE 😁
#3DPrinting #RetroComputing #PiSCSI #MacSE #VintageTech #TechProjects #HardwareHacking #RetroMods #ClassicMac #DIY
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The case for PiSCSI is already printing. Only 8 more hours and it will be over 😆 First time printing with PET-G so I'm sure to mess something up 😉
#PiSCSI #3DPrinting #RetroComputing #TechProjects #PrintingInProgress #DIY #macintoshse
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Ordered filaments and rest of the electronics from botland have arrived. I'm firing up the printer tomorrow and will be finishing the PiSCSI for Mac SE.
#print3d #macintoshse #retro #retrocomputing #3dprinting #PiSCSI #vintagecomputing #macSE #maker #electronics #retrotech #80scomputing #classicmac #diytech #restoration #DIY
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All the components needed to build the PiSCSI have arrived. Now, just a bit of soldering, and I'll be able to connect it to my Macintosh SE. And once the filaments arrive, I'll print the case, and it will look awesome!
#PiSCSI #MacintoshSE #RetroComputers #Soldering #RetroTech #DIY #TechProjects #VintageMac #Computers
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@piscsi is only 4 stars away from 500 - consider giving them a star (and a follow)!
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@piscsi is only 4 stars away from 500 - consider giving them a star (and a follow)!
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Wie finde ich heraus, warum mein Mac Classic dieses Image nicht booten will, was mit dem Mac Plus einwandfrei funktioniert? System 7.0.1, von @3rz optimiert (meine ich jedenfalls 😉) #MARCHintosh #piscsi
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Wie finde ich heraus, warum mein Mac Classic dieses Image nicht booten will, was mit dem Mac Plus einwandfrei funktioniert? System 7.0.1, von @3rz optimiert (meine ich jedenfalls 😉) #MARCHintosh #piscsi
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this is Ryza! she's a PowerBook 180 in fairly good condition and the nicest 68k Mac i own.
this MARCHINTOSH, i'm going to try to upgrade Ryza with a WiFi-capable PiSCSI (fka RaSCSI) so i can test and someday play Atelier Esri, my homebrew Atelier demake.
i'm also going to try out a brand new JCS PowerBook 1xx battery. and while i'm in there, i can at least inventory the capacitors and check the PRAM battery.
unfortunately, like most 180s, her active matrix screen is developing "tunnel vision", slowly fading from the corners inward as long as she's on. (it reverts when she's not, but it can take multiple days, far slower than the fading).
fortunately, Ryza has video output and is capable of driving a VGA monitor or capture box, so i won't need to rely on her screen too much.
#MARCHINTOSH #VintageMac #PowerBook #68k #PiSCSI #AtelierEsri
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this is Ryza! she's a PowerBook 180 in fairly good condition and the nicest 68k Mac i own.
this MARCHINTOSH, i'm going to try to upgrade Ryza with a WiFi-capable PiSCSI (fka RaSCSI) so i can test and someday play Atelier Esri, my homebrew Atelier demake.
i'm also going to try out a brand new JCS PowerBook 1xx battery. and while i'm in there, i can at least inventory the capacitors and check the PRAM battery.
unfortunately, like most 180s, her active matrix screen is developing "tunnel vision", slowly fading from the corners inward as long as she's on. (it reverts when she's not, but it can take multiple days, far slower than the fading).
fortunately, Ryza has video output and is capable of driving a VGA monitor or capture box, so i won't need to rely on her screen too much.
#MARCHINTOSH #VintageMac #PowerBook #68k #PiSCSI #AtelierEsri
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I have continued futzing around with the #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook 145B. My weekend project was to remove the ancient, decrepit SCSI hard drive (functional, but loud as heck) and replace it with the #Androda #BlueSCSI, a custom PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W attached to it. (The Pi Pico W also gives the PowerBook an internal WiFi connection, something the original never had.)
Fortunately I already have some experience working with .hda disk image files from last year's #PiSCSI project, so I had some ready-made virtual hard disks loaded with software I've barely touched.
Today at @mediaarchaeologylab I found a floppy disk for the 1995 Norton Disk Editor, a low-level diagnostic tool that I can't imagine there was much consumer demand for. The disk editor contains some hidden gems of MacIntosh lore I was previously unaware of.
The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume."
(Edit: I don't know if Apple had its own version of ASCII, but while in traditional ASCII hex 0x4244 = "BD," ASCII hex values for "RW" would be 0x5257, not 0xD2D7, so that's...weird)
Randy was employee number 6 at Apple, and a neighbor of Woz. Turning your initials into magic bytes buried in the filesystem you designed seems just so...early Apple.
The PowerBook is now completely silent when it runs. It doesn't have an internal fan. The hard drive motor was the only thing that made any noise (aside from the speaker, of course).
And the BlueSCSI? With a 128GB MicroSD card, it has about 1600 times as much storage as that old 80MB hard drive.
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I have continued futzing around with the #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook 145B. My weekend project was to remove the ancient, decrepit SCSI hard drive (functional, but loud as heck) and replace it with the #Androda #BlueSCSI, a custom PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W attached to it. (The Pi Pico W also gives the PowerBook an internal WiFi connection, something the original never had.)
Fortunately I already have some experience working with .hda disk image files from last year's #PiSCSI project, so I had some ready-made virtual hard disks loaded with software I've barely touched.
Today at @mediaarchaeologylab I found a floppy disk for the 1995 Norton Disk Editor, a low-level diagnostic tool that I can't imagine there was much consumer demand for. The disk editor contains some hidden gems of MacIntosh lore I was previously unaware of.
The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume."
(Edit: I don't know if Apple had its own version of ASCII, but while in traditional ASCII hex 0x4244 = "BD," ASCII hex values for "RW" would be 0x5257, not 0xD2D7, so that's...weird)
Randy was employee number 6 at Apple, and a neighbor of Woz. Turning your initials into magic bytes buried in the filesystem you designed seems just so...early Apple.
The PowerBook is now completely silent when it runs. It doesn't have an internal fan. The hard drive motor was the only thing that made any noise (aside from the speaker, of course).
And the BlueSCSI? With a 128GB MicroSD card, it has about 1600 times as much storage as that old 80MB hard drive.
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Quadra 700 did not like #piscsi and then I remebered termination. Weirdly it worked just fine on the 950.
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Feels just a tiny bit ridiculous to emulate a #scsi device with GHz device for a 33Mhz #computer
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Looks like #samplerspa is no more (?) #piscsi #rascsi
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Love me a good new old stock SCSI cable. I wonder if that lifetime warranty is still good?
In theory this should let me connect my #PiSCSI and external CD-ROM drive at the same time. But will it work with the IIfx’s weird SCSI termination behaviour?
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Love me a good new old stock SCSI cable. I wonder if that lifetime warranty is still good?
In theory this should let me connect my #PiSCSI and external CD-ROM drive at the same time. But will it work with the IIfx’s weird SCSI termination behaviour?
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@thatKomputerKat I thought the #PiSCSI had support for emulating one of the SCSI ethernet cards? Not Asante but Dayna something.
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@thatKomputerKat I thought the #PiSCSI had support for emulating one of the SCSI ethernet cards? Not Asante but Dayna something.
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I *knew* there was an advantage to being an infosec researcher with an interest in #retrocomputing
ClamAV has a vulnerability that can only be triggered when it scans a specially made HFS+ partition file. HFS+ is the partition format for Apple Macs starting with Mac OS 8.1.
My experience with the #PiSCSI and #sheepshaver #emulator has prepared me for this day. Lookin to make me some #retromalware 😜
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I *knew* there was an advantage to being an infosec researcher with an interest in #retrocomputing
ClamAV has a vulnerability that can only be triggered when it scans a specially made HFS+ partition file. HFS+ is the partition format for Apple Macs starting with Mac OS 8.1.
My experience with the #PiSCSI and #sheepshaver #emulator has prepared me for this day. Lookin to make me some #retromalware 😜
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The #PiSCSI also came with a heat sink, which wasn't pre-attached, and I saw no mention of in their wiki - none of the pics I saw of it featured a heat sink!
But it must have come with one for some reason, right? So I attached it before connecting the PiSCSI up to my IIfx out of an abundance of caution, and boy I'm glad I did. That thing gets HOT!!!
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The #PiSCSI also came with a heat sink, which wasn't pre-attached, and I saw no mention of in their wiki - none of the pics I saw of it featured a heat sink!
But it must have come with one for some reason, right? So I attached it before connecting the PiSCSI up to my IIfx out of an abundance of caution, and boy I'm glad I did. That thing gets HOT!!!
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My #PiSCSI finally arrived today, so I quickly jerry-rigged it up (forgot to buy a DB25-CEN50 cable, whoops) using the internal SCSI connector and did a quick performance test to compare it against my #BlueSCSI
The PiSCSI has the _slightest_ edge in read performance, by 60 KB/sec. But the BlueSCSI wins in every other metric, especially in write performance.
And I'm happy with that, because my plan is to continue to use the BlueSCSI for the OS, Apps, Games, and Docs drives, and to use the PiSCSI exclusively for CD images (so that they can be hot-swapped without me having to power down the system and change the card out).
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My #PiSCSI finally arrived today, so I quickly jerry-rigged it up (forgot to buy a DB25-CEN50 cable, whoops) using the internal SCSI connector and did a quick performance test to compare it against my #BlueSCSI
The PiSCSI has the _slightest_ edge in read performance, by 60 KB/sec. But the BlueSCSI wins in every other metric, especially in write performance.
And I'm happy with that, because my plan is to continue to use the BlueSCSI for the OS, Apps, Games, and Docs drives, and to use the PiSCSI exclusively for CD images (so that they can be hot-swapped without me having to power down the system and change the card out).
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Just a little bit of #RetroComputing for the evening.
I’m too tired to read a script tonight, so just downloading some software with the #Powerbook5300 with its newly installed #System8_6.
Thanks to #PiSCSI I was able to install clean OS and get the #FarallonEthernet adaptor working again.
I love this… SO much.
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So, I know I've been a little quiet of late - work has been hard - but I've managed to get some progress on the #powerbook5300CE and #PiScsi.
Looks like the Raspberry pi 3 I had didn't like the hat, so I switched it for a Raspberry pi 4 that I had attached to my 3D printer.
It's not a long term solution, but I was able to nuke the HD and reinstall System 8.6!
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New PiSCSIs finally showed up in the shop this morning (https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/piscsi-full-size-assembled/), so I just placed an order for one 😄
Still not sure what to do about the case, but that's a problem for Future Me.
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New PiSCSIs finally showed up in the shop this morning (https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/piscsi-full-size-assembled/), so I just placed an order for one 😄
Still not sure what to do about the case, but that's a problem for Future Me.
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My Raspberry Pi arrived yesterday afternoon 😁
Now I just need to wait for the #PiSCSI to be back in stock...and then figure out what to do about the case 😅
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My Raspberry Pi arrived yesterday afternoon 😁
Now I just need to wait for the #PiSCSI to be back in stock...and then figure out what to do about the case 😅
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If any of my #hardwarehacking #hardwarehacker #retrocomputing followers know the answer to this question about troubleshooting physical connectors of a #piscsi / #rascsi device, I'd really appreciate it.
I built one of these about a month ago, and I tested it yesterday on a retro Mac - the drive wasn't detected on the SCSI bus.
I checked the troubleshooting instructions in the #PiSCSI Github Troubleshooting page (https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/wiki/Troubleshooting) and built out a set of jumpers in the DB25 connector, and ran the python test script. The result wasn't good.
I'm now in the process of getting a real DB25 breakout board with a plug so I can rule out my janky jumper wires as a culprit in the test going south. But my question is: If these six pairs of pins (shown in red boxes) are truly not signalling properly...wat do?
I'm not sure where the fault lies - is it a failure of the chips soldered onto the board? There was a lot of surface-mount that ain't perfect but seems to work. Is there some other component that has failed? It's hard to know how to approach the problem at this scale.
Any ideas?
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So I pulled the trigger on getting a #RaspberryPi 3 Model A+, because who knows when the stock will be replenished otherwise.
As for the #PiScsi - it looks like they're all sold out of the fully assembled standard configuration. I could buy one in the compact configuration but I suspect that would cause even more problems when trying to find a case, since that one's meant to be used with the Pi Zero.
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So I pulled the trigger on getting a #RaspberryPi 3 Model A+, because who knows when the stock will be replenished otherwise.
As for the #PiScsi - it looks like they're all sold out of the fully assembled standard configuration. I could buy one in the compact configuration but I suspect that would cause even more problems when trying to find a case, since that one's meant to be used with the Pi Zero.
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Does anyone make #PiScsi cases for the RPi 3 Model A+? I did a quick Google search but could only find cases for the Pi Zero.
I'd really like a PiScsi but would prefer not to have a bare circuit board on my desk 😅
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@ActionRetro @redscsi There’s a blurb on their wiki here! https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki#introduction-and-history
TL;DR:
* RaSCSI (OG), #SCSI for the Sharp X68000 by GIMONS in Japan
* #RaSCSI > RaSCSI Reloaded > RedSCSI > #PiSCSI a fork from the above that significantly evolved on its own and beyond the orignal (which still exists!)—that’s the one you had on your channel!