#Amiga #ZuluSCSI #RetroComputing #ChrisEdwards #Commodore64
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-hard-drive-backup-with-zuluscsi-rp2040/?feed_id=6231&_unique_id=6908ba9693166
Thanks to Alex of Rabbit Hole computing we are converting the remaining SCSI disk drives on our remote systems to #zuluscsi
Here is hkypux, an HP9000/715 running HP/UX 10.20
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.
@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.
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.
ZuluSCSI™ is a SCSI computer storage emulation platform, which speaks both SCSI-1 and SCSI-2. It uses file-based SCSI HDD & CD-ROM images, similar to RaSCSI and BlueSCSI. It represents a fusion of firmware and concepts from both SCSI2SD V6 and BlueSCSI. Hard drive and CD-ROM drive images are stored on...