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WLAN driver: DaynaPORT 1.5
Robert Smith's driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI 'drives' ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Changes in version 1.5:
- Open multiple times
- Timer crash on exit (CheckIO check fix)
- 16bit read/write calls
- Aggressive mode to reduce wait times -
WLAN driver: DaynaPORT 1.5
Robert Smith's driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI 'drives' ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Changes in version 1.5:
- Open multiple times
- Timer crash on exit (CheckIO check fix)
- 16bit read/write calls
- Aggressive mode to reduce wait times -
WLAN driver: DaynaPORT 1.5
Robert Smith's driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI 'drives' ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Changes in version 1.5:
- Open multiple times
- Timer crash on exit (CheckIO check fix)
- 16bit read/write calls
- Aggressive mode to reduce wait times -
WLAN driver: DaynaPORT 1.5
Robert Smith's driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI 'drives' ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Changes in version 1.5:
- Open multiple times
- Timer crash on exit (CheckIO check fix)
- 16bit read/write calls
- Aggressive mode to reduce wait times -
WLAN driver: DaynaPORT 1.5
Robert Smith's driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI 'drives' ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Changes in version 1.5:
- Open multiple times
- Timer crash on exit (CheckIO check fix)
- 16bit read/write calls
- Aggressive mode to reduce wait times -
Rather then some no name Aliexpress SCSI to sdcard converter I am going to go for the #ZuluSCSI blaster
The board looks neat and tidy and the firmware is open-source and configuration seems straightforward.
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SCSI emulation: BlueSCSI-Toolbox v1.3
The BlueSCSI Toolbox combines two utilities for managing a BlueSCSI V2 or ZuluSCSI in an Amiga: the CD changer makes it possible to switch between CD ISO images on the SD card during operation. The SD transfer tool can be used to transfer files from the SD card to the Amiga.
The new version 1.3 contains various corrections by Stefan Reinauer and also offers support for 68000 CPUs.
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AmigaNET Speed Boost: RobSmithDev Doubles BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Transfers
#Amiga #BlueSCSI #ZuluSCSI #RetroComputing #SCSI #WiFi #Homebrew #OpenSource #Commodore #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiganet-speed-boost-robsmithdev-doubles-bluescsi-wi-fi-transfers/?fsp_sid=1913 -
Amiga 3000 Double Unboxing: Chris Edwards Restoration Brings Home Two Units
#ChrisEdwardsRestoration #Amiga3000 #Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #ZZ9000 #ZuluSCSI #Gotek #Workbench #RTG #Repair #Unboxing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-3000-double-unboxing-chris-edwards-restoration-brings-home-two-units/?feed_id=7129&_unique_id=6942c11156251 -
Amiga 3000 Double Unboxing: Chris Edwards Restoration Brings Home Two Units
#ChrisEdwardsRestoration #Amiga3000 #Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #ZZ9000 #ZuluSCSI #Gotek #Workbench #RTG #Repair #Unboxing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-3000-double-unboxing-chris-edwards-restoration-brings-home-two-units/?feed_id=7129&_unique_id=6942c11156251 -
Amiga 3000 Double Unboxing: Chris Edwards Restoration Brings Home Two Units
#ChrisEdwardsRestoration #Amiga3000 #Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #ZZ9000 #ZuluSCSI #Gotek #Workbench #RTG #Repair #Unboxing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-3000-double-unboxing-chris-edwards-restoration-brings-home-two-units/?feed_id=7129&_unique_id=6942c11156251 -
Amiga 3000 Double Unboxing: Chris Edwards Restoration Brings Home Two Units
#ChrisEdwardsRestoration #Amiga3000 #Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #ZZ9000 #ZuluSCSI #Gotek #Workbench #RTG #Repair #Unboxing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-3000-double-unboxing-chris-edwards-restoration-brings-home-two-units/?feed_id=7129&_unique_id=6942c11156251 -
Amiga 3000 Double Unboxing: Chris Edwards Restoration Brings Home Two Units
#ChrisEdwardsRestoration #Amiga3000 #Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #ZZ9000 #ZuluSCSI #Gotek #Workbench #RTG #Repair #Unboxing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-3000-double-unboxing-chris-edwards-restoration-brings-home-two-units/?feed_id=7129&_unique_id=6942c11156251 -
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115702384368353515
#ZuluSCSI, #BlueSCSI and the like (and soon #PicoIDE) are godsends for old systems!
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Amiga Hard Drive Backup with ZuluSCSI RP2040
#Amiga #ZuluSCSI #RetroComputing #ChrisEdwards #Commodore64
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-hard-drive-backup-with-zuluscsi-rp2040/?feed_id=6231&_unique_id=6908ba9693166 -
WLAN driver
Robert Smith's "DaynaPORT" driver uses the WLAN emulation available in the SD-based SCSI ‘drives’ ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI to connect any Amiga with a SCSI host to the network. Version 1.3 fixes a problem with downloading large files, among other things.
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@Amiga_News Yeah, I've already had on my mind to make a video about how I use it. But as always: too many ideas, too little time. 🤷
So for now I can only share a few pictures as inspiration.
I've put my card into an old SCSI housing that used to contain a SyQuest drive for 270MB discs. -
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card. Version 2025.06.01 fixes a crash when loading ROM in ZuluSCSI Blaster and enables physical eject button for ZuluSCSI V1.2.
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Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old #CPM computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the #MFM and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though.
Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a #SASI interface, which is sort of an early version of #SCSI. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a #Xebec SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.
Which meant I had zero luck with my new #zuluscsi device. https://zuluscsi.com/
I've got a plan B though.
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Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old #CPM computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the #MFM and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though.
Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a #SASI interface, which is sort of an early version of #SCSI. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a #Xebec SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.
Which meant I had zero luck with my new #zuluscsi device. https://zuluscsi.com/
I've got a plan B though.
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Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old #CPM computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the #MFM and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though.
Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a #SASI interface, which is sort of an early version of #SCSI. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a #Xebec SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.
Which meant I had zero luck with my new #zuluscsi device. https://zuluscsi.com/
I've got a plan B though.
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Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old #CPM computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the #MFM and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though.
Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a #SASI interface, which is sort of an early version of #SCSI. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a #Xebec SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.
Which meant I had zero luck with my new #zuluscsi device. https://zuluscsi.com/
I've got a plan B though.
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Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old #CPM computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the #MFM and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though.
Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a #SASI interface, which is sort of an early version of #SCSI. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a #Xebec SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.
Which meant I had zero luck with my new #zuluscsi device. https://zuluscsi.com/
I've got a plan B though.
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ZuluSCSI RP2040 Rev 2022d (L) vs. Rev 2023a (R)
The differences are subtle, but they're there. The LED pin header doesn't count, that was soldered on by me on the older one.
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Possibly a dumb question: what's the difference between the #ZuluSCSI RP2040 and the #BlueSCSI V2?
As far as I can tell, they're almost identical. At the moment I'm using a mix of BlueSCSI-V2 where I need speed, and RaSCSI where I need to be able to load images over WiFi. I'm wondering if ZuluSCSI would offer any advantages over what I already have.Edit: I'm aware there's drama between the projects - I'm not interested in that. Tell me about the feature set.
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Well, it just finished. It had about 2x7.5GiB of stuff to copy. Well, yeah, the SCSI2SD v5 isn't fast... The copy details can be found in zululog.txt too. (...) log-shortening is by me, but the verbose logs are useful for imaging spinning rust SCSI disks with bad sectors, I imagine.
The disk images seem to be okay. Now lets copy them to another SD card, and boot the box with the ZuluSCSI compact!
(Edit: The Unit 4 errors in the log is the CD-ROM drive, with no disk in it.)
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One of the great features of the ZuluSCSI RP2040 is the "initiator mode". It can clone all other disks on the SCSI chain for you to images on the SD card, without any sort of user interaction or host computer support needed. The A2000 is only used as a PSU. So that's running now.
Sadly, the Compact version doesn't seem to have the required switch to enable initiator mode, so - "regular" version to the rescue. Sometimes hardware hoarding has its perks. 😅
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I've gifted two Christmas parts to myself. One is the #GreaseweazleV4 #Amiga USB floppy adapter. The other one is the actual RP2040 version of the #ZuluSCSI. First usage is the #MacIIfx. If it works fine maybe another one for the #A2000 after.
Background: My wife would never ever gift electronic to me, it's not her world.
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I've gifted two Christmas parts to myself. One is the #GreaseweazleV4 #Amiga USB floppy adapter. The other one is the actual RP2040 version of the #ZuluSCSI. First usage is the #MacIIfx. If it works fine maybe another one for the #A2000 after.
Background: My wife would never ever gift electronic to me, it's not her world.
#RetroComputing -
I've gifted two Christmas parts to myself. One is the #GreaseweazleV4 #Amiga USB floppy adapter. The other one is the actual RP2040 version of the #ZuluSCSI. First usage is the #MacIIfx. If it works fine maybe another one for the #A2000 after.
Background: My wife would never ever gift electronic to me, it's not her world.
#RetroComputing -
I've gifted two Christmas parts to myself. One is the #GreaseweazleV4 #Amiga USB floppy adapter. The other one is the actual RP2040 version of the #ZuluSCSI. First usage is the #MacIIfx. If it works fine maybe another one for the #A2000 after.
Background: My wife would never ever gift electronic to me, it's not her world.
#RetroComputing -
I've gifted two Christmas parts to myself. One is the #GreaseweazleV4 #Amiga USB floppy adapter. The other one is the actual RP2040 version of the #ZuluSCSI. First usage is the #MacIIfx. If it works fine maybe another one for the #A2000 after.
Background: My wife would never ever gift electronic to me, it's not her world.
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@mike not seeing an out-of-stock on this #ZuluSCSI: https://amigastore.eu/600-zuluscsi-v1-1-scsi-to-sd-adapter.html