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| RaSCSI Development Thread | |
Posted by: NoTrueSpaceman on 2020-09-14 22:00:47Slightly offtopic here, but from my experience (admittedly with scsi2sd) it is a lot easier to just copy the A/UX image to a virtual hard disc, boot from that and not muck about with CD-ROM emulation at all. The installer will quite happily run from something it thinks is an HD.I tried that route and didn’t get it to work. How did you copy the image to a virtual hard disk? Do you mean mounting the iso? | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-09-14 22:05:24I tried that route and didn’t get it to work. How did you copy the image to a virtual hard disk? Do you mean mounting the iso? I'm going to write up a writeup of how to do it when I have time and energy. What I think I did was set up a new block device on the scsi2sd (using v6 here), dded the ISO onto it, replaced the driver on that logical device with the normal hard disc one using HD SC setup, then booted from it. It does work, because this is the only way I could get the thing installed here 🙂 . | |
| Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-09-15 07:23:21 Ok, got the emulated HD up and running on my LC III with OS 7.5.5 after tinkering around with HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (Patched). No such luck with mounting CD's. I've installed Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.3.5 and patched it per instructions, but I get the "disk unreadable by this Macintosh" message (see below) when I try to mount a CD. It appears that it at least sees the image as a CD. Maybe my iso disc image is bad? Is there any site that has a bunch of Mac iso image downloads that I could use for testing?  | |
| Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-09-15 07:52:20 So I downloaded the Myst French version iso image from Macintosh Garden and the CD mounts fine. Still looking for a site with Mac CD iso images or does everyone just convert them from other image formats? | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-09-15 08:05:52 I usually start with www.macintoshrepository.org and www.macintoshgarden.org. If you find a .toast file, you just need to rename it to .iso, and it should work fine with RaSCSI | |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-09-15 08:30:33I usually start with www.macintoshrepository.org and www.macintoshgarden.org.Good to know - thanks! | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-09-20 07:16:30 One step closer to working Ethernet! Today RaSCSI was able to receive packets from the Mac and write them to a Linux tap device 🙂  Traffic still doesn't go the other way, so the overall function is FAR from usable, but this made me happy! :-D Happy Sunday everyone! | |
| Posted by: mdeverhart on 2020-09-20 08:50:28 Saw this blog post earlier this week - author built a SW controlled, super capacitor based UPS for his RaSCSI to protect the Pi from unexpected power-down when the host computer shuts down: https://www.smbaker.com/supercapacitor-uninterruptable-power-supply-ups-for-raspberry-pi | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-09-20 09:03:52 That is so cool!! I might need to make one of those 🙂 | |
Posted by: Michael_b on 2020-09-20 09:24:52One step closer to working Ethernet! Today RaSCSI was able to receive packets from the Mac and write them to a Linux tap device 🙂Amazing work! | |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-09-20 11:37:02One step closer to working Ethernet! Today RaSCSI was able to receive packets from the Mac and write them to a Linux tap device 🙂Nice! It would be awesome to have Ethernet functionality too. | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-09-20 18:13:54Nice! It would be awesome to have Ethernet functionality too.The fun thing here is because it's a tap interface, you can run other software on the r-pi directly plugged into that "network". So, for example, you could bridge the tap interface to a wireless interface and add a bit of code to configure the wireless either through a web UI or by broadcasting the SSIDs you can see via NBP and writing a little Chooser extension to switch between them (which I think is probably the most System 7-idiomatic way of doing it) | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-09-26 11:25:34 Making some progress on Ethernet support! Its turning out to be much more complex than I originally hoped. The original RaSCSI code didn't have "Reselection" capability, which the Nuvolink SC uses. RaSCSI was developed assuming that the host would ALWAYS initiate the communication. That doesn't work well if you're receiving network packets and need to push them to the host. Also - I put up a handful more RaSCSIs on Tindie, for folks who are waiting for one. There's only one left, but I should have more in a couple weeks. Also - join us on Discord if you want to talk more about RaSCSI! https://discord.gg/PyS58u6 | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-10-07 07:09:54 They're back in stock!!! https://www.tindie.com/products/landogriffin/rascsi-macintosh-version/ Promo code for my 68kmla buddies through Sunday: THEYREBACK for $10 off. | |
Posted by: PotatoFi on 2020-10-07 13:54:58They're back in stock!!!Excellent news! And to celebrate, I'm going to attempt to solder one of these together. Live. In front of people. What could possibly go wrong? Details here: | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-10-08 03:36:59They're back in stock!!! Yes! I missed the last batch, ordered one of these... | |
| Posted by: Endsjustify on 2020-10-08 03:42:57 It’s an easy and fun build of an endlessly useful tool. I can’t suggest Picking this kit up enough. I’ve used mine almost every day since build. | |
Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-10-08 06:52:25It’s an easy and fun build of an endlessly useful tool. I can’t suggest Picking this kit up enough. I’ve used mine almost every day since build.So glad to hear that!! I would love to see some action shots to see how people are using it! My hubby made a IIci style box for my Pi zero Rascsi!   | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-10-08 06:58:11My hubby made a IIci style box for my Pi zero Rascsi!This is really nice! | |
| Posted by: landoGriffin on 2020-10-10 10:17:14 @PotatoFi is live-streaming an assembly right now! | |
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