There Be Dragons Here
It has been an extremely slow and unstable experience so far, but its more or less running off the internal 810MB HDD
had to make a new PReP boot floppy via carving the first partition out from OS/2 bluescsi image and patching bytes (need to find OS/2 userland fu to etch)
It has been an extremely slow and unstable experience so far, but its more or less running off the internal 810MB HDD
had to make a new PReP boot floppy via carving the first partition out from OS/2 bluescsi image and patching bytes (need to find OS/2 userland fu to etch)
tomorrow I'm going to see what it thinks about a 10,000RPM U160 Cheetah instead of the bluescsi
December 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There Be Dragons Here
It has been an extremely slow and unstable experience so far, but its more or less running off the internal 810MB HDD
had to make a new PReP boot floppy via carving the first partition out from OS/2 bluescsi image and patching bytes (need to find OS/2 userland fu to etch)
It has been an extremely slow and unstable experience so far, but its more or less running off the internal 810MB HDD
had to make a new PReP boot floppy via carving the first partition out from OS/2 bluescsi image and patching bytes (need to find OS/2 userland fu to etch)
I lost a couple of hours today trying to use a BlueSCSI HDD image with SCSI ID 0 on a Silicon Graphics machine...
(one where the SCSI controller is on ID 0)
(one where the SCSI controller is on ID 0)
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I lost a couple of hours today trying to use a BlueSCSI HDD image with SCSI ID 0 on a Silicon Graphics machine...
(one where the SCSI controller is on ID 0)
(one where the SCSI controller is on ID 0)
I’m wondering if it’s the BlueSCSI itself being weird. I know getting them to work on Sun hardware is a pain in the arse at the best of times.
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I’m wondering if it’s the BlueSCSI itself being weird. I know getting them to work on Sun hardware is a pain in the arse at the best of times.
tomorrow I'm going to see what it thinks about a 10,000RPM U160 Cheetah instead of the bluescsi
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
tomorrow I'm going to see what it thinks about a 10,000RPM U160 Cheetah instead of the bluescsi
had to patch things up in the prep partition to point to the right boot config
bluescsi cdrom emulation keeps making it hang in the boot process
fingers crossed
bluescsi cdrom emulation keeps making it hang in the boot process
fingers crossed
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
had to patch things up in the prep partition to point to the right boot config
bluescsi cdrom emulation keeps making it hang in the boot process
fingers crossed
bluescsi cdrom emulation keeps making it hang in the boot process
fingers crossed
I think I forgot to mention during the stream today that I provided a zip of my BlueSCSI image that will boot on the UG20 (instructions and link are also in the video description). drive.google.com/file/d/1ZB_D...
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I think I forgot to mention during the stream today that I provided a zip of my BlueSCSI image that will boot on the UG20 (instructions and link are also in the video description). drive.google.com/file/d/1ZB_D...
easy install is flying on bluescsi
just waiting for it to halt and catch fire
just waiting for it to halt and catch fire
December 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
easy install is flying on bluescsi
just waiting for it to halt and catch fire
just waiting for it to halt and catch fire
at some point scsi cd-rom i/o to bluescsi is causing it to bork too
really hope its isolated to this environment
really hope its isolated to this environment
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
at some point scsi cd-rom i/o to bluescsi is causing it to bork too
really hope its isolated to this environment
really hope its isolated to this environment
the installer managed to partition the bluescsi just fine
it also blasted the prep bootloader bits onto the first partition
the fat filesystem seemed to mount just fine
so I can only imagine what the heck caused the installer to bail at that point
its seemingly lowlevel scsi related
it also blasted the prep bootloader bits onto the first partition
the fat filesystem seemed to mount just fine
so I can only imagine what the heck caused the installer to bail at that point
its seemingly lowlevel scsi related
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
the installer managed to partition the bluescsi just fine
it also blasted the prep bootloader bits onto the first partition
the fat filesystem seemed to mount just fine
so I can only imagine what the heck caused the installer to bail at that point
its seemingly lowlevel scsi related
it also blasted the prep bootloader bits onto the first partition
the fat filesystem seemed to mount just fine
so I can only imagine what the heck caused the installer to bail at that point
its seemingly lowlevel scsi related
Hey, do you need or would like a BlueSCSI card? I got inadvertantly gifted one I don't need.
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hey, do you need or would like a BlueSCSI card? I got inadvertantly gifted one I don't need.
I’m not at a computer but just need to wire up the gpio to the i2c buttons. Have to pull up kicad or look at the defines for which ones they are on the bluescsi. Also which hardware rev of db25 as the older one has them exposed on the board github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
Buttons
Open source, open hardware, SCSI emulator using the Pi Pico PR2040 and Pico 2 RP2350 - BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2
github.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’m not at a computer but just need to wire up the gpio to the i2c buttons. Have to pull up kicad or look at the defines for which ones they are on the bluescsi. Also which hardware rev of db25 as the older one has them exposed on the board github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
Köpte just en julklapp åt mig själv.
En BlueSCSI
En liten adapter till raspberry pi Micro som gör om den till en scsi disk. Vilket nog kan passa dels en retro dator men framför allt ett par av mina gamla samplers.
En BlueSCSI
En liten adapter till raspberry pi Micro som gör om den till en scsi disk. Vilket nog kan passa dels en retro dator men framför allt ett par av mina gamla samplers.
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Köpte just en julklapp åt mig själv.
En BlueSCSI
En liten adapter till raspberry pi Micro som gör om den till en scsi disk. Vilket nog kan passa dels en retro dator men framför allt ett par av mina gamla samplers.
En BlueSCSI
En liten adapter till raspberry pi Micro som gör om den till en scsi disk. Vilket nog kan passa dels en retro dator men framför allt ett par av mina gamla samplers.
Tuesday at 2:30PM EST we're going to finish up the FM Towns II UG20 saga so I can get it back to its owner. There's still one floppy drive to service and I'll show how I modified a 72pin SIMM and got a BlueSCSI to work with the machine.
youtube.com/live/FW9Mjpo...
youtube.com/live/FW9Mjpo...
Final assembly of Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20 with floppy service and BlueSCSI boot (Part 3 of 3)
YouTube video by BigBadBench
youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Tuesday at 2:30PM EST we're going to finish up the FM Towns II UG20 saga so I can get it back to its owner. There's still one floppy drive to service and I'll show how I modified a 72pin SIMM and got a BlueSCSI to work with the machine.
youtube.com/live/FW9Mjpo...
youtube.com/live/FW9Mjpo...
The drive is absolutely roached. But, i cleaned it up as best as I could and swapped over a Conner 40SC board so I can BlueSCSI Initiator dump it. Its... actually trying!
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The drive is absolutely roached. But, i cleaned it up as best as I could and swapped over a Conner 40SC board so I can BlueSCSI Initiator dump it. Its... actually trying!
Playing around with adding BlueSCSI Toolbox protocol support to DingusPPC. Though somewhat roundabout, the end result is that you can transfer files in and out of more emulated machine types on Infinite Mac. As a bonus, it also makes the Macintosh Garden library […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Playing around with adding BlueSCSI Toolbox protocol support to DingusPPC. Though somewhat roundabout, the end result is that you can transfer files in and out of more emulated machine types on Infinite Mac. As a bonus, it also makes the Macintosh Garden library […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
I bought this bluescsi from you... Feb2024 when my buddy picked up this SE from his local craigslist for me. Its only taken me almost two years to get it from him! 😬😬😬
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I bought this bluescsi from you... Feb2024 when my buddy picked up this SE from his local craigslist for me. Its only taken me almost two years to get it from him! 😬😬😬
Snow v1.2.0 is released!
SE/30, IIx & IIcx emulation
Easy file sharing, powered by #BlueSCSI Toolbox
Serial port bridging over TCP/pty
Labels in the disassembly view!
Drag-n-drop support
CRT-shader!
ASC sound fixes
twvd, nulleric, SuperSVGA , flutterby, gloriouscow
github.com/twvd/snow/re...
SE/30, IIx & IIcx emulation
Easy file sharing, powered by #BlueSCSI Toolbox
Serial port bridging over TCP/pty
Labels in the disassembly view!
Drag-n-drop support
CRT-shader!
ASC sound fixes
twvd, nulleric, SuperSVGA , flutterby, gloriouscow
github.com/twvd/snow/re...
Release v1.2.0 · twvd/snow
New features
Macintosh SE/30, IIx, IIcx model emulation (68030 still pretty experimental)
Easy file sharing, powered by the BlueSCSI protocol, by @erichelgeson
New Snow mascot! Thanks to @dbalsom
...
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Snow v1.2.0 is released!
SE/30, IIx & IIcx emulation
Easy file sharing, powered by #BlueSCSI Toolbox
Serial port bridging over TCP/pty
Labels in the disassembly view!
Drag-n-drop support
CRT-shader!
ASC sound fixes
twvd, nulleric, SuperSVGA , flutterby, gloriouscow
github.com/twvd/snow/re...
SE/30, IIx & IIcx emulation
Easy file sharing, powered by #BlueSCSI Toolbox
Serial port bridging over TCP/pty
Labels in the disassembly view!
Drag-n-drop support
CRT-shader!
ASC sound fixes
twvd, nulleric, SuperSVGA , flutterby, gloriouscow
github.com/twvd/snow/re...
Alright! Booted BasilsikII (on 7.5.3), made a 20mb DSK file. Turned it to an HDA file and tossed that on my BlueSCSI so I could copy Microsoft Works to my SE! This is so cool
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Alright! Booted BasilsikII (on 7.5.3), made a 20mb DSK file. Turned it to an HDA file and tossed that on my BlueSCSI so I could copy Microsoft Works to my SE! This is so cool
Realized oh yeah, VCF SoCal is like two months away and given these prints are quite long I should start rolling with them. Not sure if I’m gonna print some BlueSCSI ones just yet but we’ll see.
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Realized oh yeah, VCF SoCal is like two months away and given these prints are quite long I should start rolling with them. Not sure if I’m gonna print some BlueSCSI ones just yet but we’ll see.
Installing a 50p internally & want to be extra cautious you should. I'm comfortable moving around with the back off and install a HDD, but not everyone is for sure and thats ok. Good things to consider are a mount to access the SD card from the front, or a BlueSCSI DB25 that plugs in the back
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Installing a 50p internally & want to be extra cautious you should. I'm comfortable moving around with the back off and install a HDD, but not everyone is for sure and thats ok. Good things to consider are a mount to access the SD card from the front, or a BlueSCSI DB25 that plugs in the back
Anyone following me put a bluescsi into their Macintosh SE lately? Do I have to discharge the CRT to do this? Gotta run to Ace to get some aligator clips still before I open the case, sigh.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Anyone following me put a bluescsi into their Macintosh SE lately? Do I have to discharge the CRT to do this? Gotta run to Ace to get some aligator clips still before I open the case, sigh.
Macintosh SE FDHDを分解保守。内蔵HDDが死んだのでBlueSCSIに置き換え。HDDのベイごと外したのでベイに乗ってたアクセスLEDが無くなった。そのためアクセスLEDも自作で搭載。
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Macintosh SE FDHDを分解保守。内蔵HDDが死んだのでBlueSCSIに置き換え。HDDのベイごと外したのでベイに乗ってたアクセスLEDが無くなった。そのためアクセスLEDも自作で搭載。
Been toying with the Torch Tx floppy's. Finally accepted that without re-compiling Unix it's unlikely the Gotek will ever work other than for Key Disk duty.
But I got a blank disk image that works great on the BlueSCSI. Had to remove files from an existing image which was mounted in Linux.
But I got a blank disk image that works great on the BlueSCSI. Had to remove files from an existing image which was mounted in Linux.
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Been toying with the Torch Tx floppy's. Finally accepted that without re-compiling Unix it's unlikely the Gotek will ever work other than for Key Disk duty.
But I got a blank disk image that works great on the BlueSCSI. Had to remove files from an existing image which was mounted in Linux.
But I got a blank disk image that works great on the BlueSCSI. Had to remove files from an existing image which was mounted in Linux.
LCs FOR SALE! Just went through all of these myself, so they have been gone through.
Two were bombed, replaced the boards and got rid of the shields. the other 4 weren't. All are fixed/working. 2 of which have Bluescsi v2, 1 is a bluescsi v1, rest still have original HDDs. (Ran out of blueSCSIs)
Two were bombed, replaced the boards and got rid of the shields. the other 4 weren't. All are fixed/working. 2 of which have Bluescsi v2, 1 is a bluescsi v1, rest still have original HDDs. (Ran out of blueSCSIs)
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
LCs FOR SALE! Just went through all of these myself, so they have been gone through.
Two were bombed, replaced the boards and got rid of the shields. the other 4 weren't. All are fixed/working. 2 of which have Bluescsi v2, 1 is a bluescsi v1, rest still have original HDDs. (Ran out of blueSCSIs)
Two were bombed, replaced the boards and got rid of the shields. the other 4 weren't. All are fixed/working. 2 of which have Bluescsi v2, 1 is a bluescsi v1, rest still have original HDDs. (Ran out of blueSCSIs)
The 25-pin external BlueSCSI is my favorite version! I love how I can just swap it around between all my different systems. This is a great opportunity to get one if you don't have one already.
Get a crazy deal - RIGHT NOW - at JCM-1.com
BlueSCSI v2 25-Pin External, Pico 1 with WiFi, fully assembled: only $35! That's crazy!
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BlueSCSI v2 25-Pin External, Pico 1 with WiFi, fully assembled: only $35! That's crazy!
jcm-1.com/product/bl...
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The 25-pin external BlueSCSI is my favorite version! I love how I can just swap it around between all my different systems. This is a great opportunity to get one if you don't have one already.