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BlueSCSI SD card prep
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 13:22:40
So today I’m finally ready to format my SD card. I’m trying a pre made image from GitHub and the Log.txt says no image could be detected. What is wrong here?
Posted by: jessenator on 2022-07-16 13:36:09
I've found that I had to do an exFAT format with diskpart via command line to get a consistent format that the thing would recognize.
Posted by: Torbar on 2022-07-16 13:54:44
The image needs to be a HDA file placed directly on the SD card. It looks like you somehow extracted the image or something?
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 13:55:19
It has specified it is in exact. Do I need to do anything with the.zip? I did rename it to hd10-512-MacHD.hda
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 13:56:25
I fixed that now by downloading the.zip again.
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 14:07:53
Now I get this in log.txt but no boot
BlueSCSI <-> SD - https://github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI

VERSION: 1.1-20220404-USB

DEBUG:0 SCSI_SELECT:0 SDFAT_FILE_TYPE:3

SdFat version: 2.0.6

SPI speed: 50Mhz

SdFat Max FileName Length: 32

Initialized SD Card - lets go!

Sd MID:3 OID:SD

Sd Name:SK32G

Sd Date:7/2015

Sd Serial:1512055730

- hd10-512-machd.hda / 18136144bytes / 17711KiB / 17MiB

ID:LUN0:LUN1:

0:----:----:

1: 512:----:

2:----:----:

3:----:----:

4:----:----:

5:----:----:

6:----:----:

Finished initialization of SCSI Devices - Entering main loop.
Posted by: Torbar on 2022-07-16 14:21:39
the image probably doesn't have an OS on it
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 14:24:20
In the.zip I opened with 7 Zip it said MacOS.hda
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 14:26:36
Could you give me a link to a good premade with os 7.5?
Posted by: Torbar on 2022-07-16 16:15:08
Try the RaSCSI-Boot-7.5.3.hda_.zip

Applications A - Z - Macintosh Garden

macintoshgarden.org macintoshgarden.org

Unzip it, and renmae the file to be hd10-512-machd.hda
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 16:21:40
do I do anything with the.zip extension at the end of the file name?
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-16 16:29:28
Also, do I need to have the blank .hda with the drivers I made in Disk Jockey on the SD card? Do I have to push the reformat button on the Macintosh screen before I get this working?
Posted by: djhaloeight on 2022-07-16 21:51:23
I've found its best to use Basilisk II to get your HDA images ready to go before you try to use them on real hardware. I use Disk Jockey to make the size I want, mount it in Basilisk II so I can format the drive, install any system software and applications I need then copy the HDA file to my SD when I'm done. Seems to work pretty good.
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-17 06:44:02
Does mini vMac work at all?
Posted by: djhaloeight on 2022-07-17 21:57:55
I don't see why it wouldn't, provided it can use HDA files for hard drives like Basilik can.
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-18 14:31:01
After I set up mini vMac, how do I save it on the SD card.
Posted by: djhaloeight on 2022-07-18 23:16:36
I don’t have any experience with mini vMac, so I don’t know if it even supports using .hda files as hard disk images. But you just drag the .hda file in the Finder to the sd to copy it for use in the bluescsi, just like you’d copy any other file to an sd.
Posted by: RoboSport on 2022-07-19 11:05:10
I've found its best to use Basilisk II to get your HDA images ready to go before you try to use them on real hardware. I use Disk Jockey to make the size I want, mount it in Basilisk II so I can format the drive, install any system software and applications I need then copy the HDA file to my SD when I'm done. Seems to work pretty good.

Does SheepShaver work for preparing images as well?
Posted by: djhaloeight on 2022-07-19 11:06:00
Does SheepShaver work for preparing images as well?
Not sure. If it supports using .hda files as hard drive images I’d imagine it would.
Posted by: Andrew18489 on 2022-07-19 13:12:46
A GeekyBit tutorial on YouTube said Sheepshaver does work.
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