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  • Re: ZuluSCSI Manual

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu Mar 9 05:09:55 2023
    SD card requirements

    The ZuluSCSI firmware requires a MBR/DOS-partitioned SD card, and at
    least one FAT32 or exFAT-formatted SD partition, which must be labeled
    SDHC or SDXC. Older SD cards manufactured prior to around 2008,
    generally ~4GB and smaller, may not be detected by the SDIO interface of
    the microcontroller. This is a hardware/silicon limitation. ZuluSCSI has
    no upper limit on the size of SD cards it is compatible with, and is
    known to work with large 256GB and 400GB SD cards which are currently commercially available. SD cards partitioned with GPT (GUID Partition
    Map) can not be read by ZuluSCSI, and the ZuluSCSI will not detect such
    SD cards, resulting in the LED flashing five times.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI.com/blob/gh-pages/ZuluSCSI-Manual.md

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    Anyone got documentation on Zulu SCSI v1.1 2022 card?

    Preformatted the SD card with FAT just to be sure it was good.

    Adapter does not detected in Windows 10 usb

    What settings should the switches on top be set to for the adapter to
    work just a simple HD in a 9577.


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Ryan Alswede on Thu Mar 9 05:06:51 2023
    https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI.com/blob/gh-pages/ZuluSCSI-Manual.md

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    Anyone got documentation on Zulu SCSI v1.1 2022 card?

    Preformatted the SD card with FAT just to be sure it was good.

    Adapter does not detected in Windows 10 usb

    What settings should the switches on top be set to for the adapter to work just a simple HD in a 9577.


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu Mar 9 05:28:22 2023
    single, valid disk image file

    What is this? I grok the idea, but just saving 1GB of empty space [ex.
    0662] isn't klar to me.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    SD card requirements

    The ZuluSCSI firmware requires a MBR/DOS-partitioned SD card, and at
    least one FAT32 or exFAT-formatted SD partition, which must be labeled
    SDHC or SDXC. Older SD cards manufactured prior to around 2008,
    generally ~4GB and smaller, may not be detected by the SDIO interface of
    the microcontroller. This is a hardware/silicon limitation. ZuluSCSI has
    no upper limit on the size of SD cards it is compatible with, and is
    known to work with large 256GB and 400GB SD cards which are currently commercially available. SD cards partitioned with GPT (GUID Partition
    Map) can not be read by ZuluSCSI, and the ZuluSCSI will not detect such
    SD cards, resulting in the LED flashing five times.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI.com/blob/gh-pages/ZuluSCSI-Manual.md

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    Anyone got documentation on Zulu SCSI v1.1 2022 card?

    Preformatted the SD card with FAT just to be sure it was good.

    Adapter does not detected in Windows 10 usb

    What settings should the switches on top be set to for the adapter to
    work just a simple HD in a 9577.


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  • From gfretwell@aol.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 9 09:49:30 2023
    On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 05:28:22 -0600, Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net>
    wrote:

    single, valid disk image file

    What is this? I grok the idea, but just saving 1GB of empty space [ex.
    0662] isn't klar to me.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I use Acronis True Image and the image it creates is about the size of
    the used space in the partition you are backing up and you can lay
    that back down on a smaller drive/partition if it fits. It doesn't
    back up empty space.

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  • From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 13:13:22 2023
    Not looking good. Basics failing.

    Using a iBM Model 77 (9577)
    -2GB Kodak SD card format to FAT32
    -Windows95 boot disk img named as HD6.img copied to the card where the 6 is suppose to be the SCSI ID.
    -put into the end position of the SCSI cable, termination sw on with power cable plugged in..

    Machine errors as no boot device was found...

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Ryan Alswede on Fri Mar 10 16:02:42 2023
    I am not klar on the disk image source.

    W95 boot disk img.

    What image? Of a CD? An image of a real W95 boot drive, spinning
    platters to an image file?



    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    -Windows95 boot disk img named as HD6.img copied to the card where the 6 is suppose to be the SCSI ID.

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  • From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 15:28:32 2023
    So it turns out you don't load real img to the drive. Just a dummy file of size X with the extension of img and that becomes like the "drive raw space" I guess to be later OS operated on..

    Still working with support because the model 77 doesn't like the SCSI side of things. Might be an ini work around.

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Ryan Alswede on Fri Mar 10 19:14:05 2023
    Ryan, the FAQ is not clear on this, you are the pioneer.

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    Just a dummy file of size X with the extension of img and that becomes like the "drive raw space"

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Ryan Alswede on Sat Mar 11 06:40:33 2023
    Since there is no documentation for use with IBM SCSI, we don't have to
    worry about following it :)

    I assume this is the Bermuda? If so, max IML drive is 3.94GB.

    Perhaps... the IBM SCSI controller wandts to see the Sector and Track info?

    What SCSI HD do you wandt to emulate? I'm not sure if you need the
    Vendor, Product, Version, and Serial, does the IBM system programs or
    the SCSI BIOS even czech for that?

    My SWAGs for ini:

    [SCSI]
    # Settings that apply to all devices
    Debug = 0 # Same effect as DIPSW2, enables verbose log messages SelectionDelay = 255 # Millisecond delay after selection, 255 =
    automatic, 0 = no delay
    PhyMode = 0 # 0: Best available 1: PIO 2: DMA_TIMER [?]

    # Settings that can be needed for compatibility with some hosts
    Quirks = 0 # 0: Standard, 1: Apple, 2: OMTI, 4: Xebec, 8: VMS EnableUnitAttention = 0 # Post UNIT_ATTENTION status on power-on or SD
    card hotplug [?]
    EnableSCSI2 = 1 # Enable faster speeds of SCSI2 [?]
    EnableSelLatch = 0 # For Philips P2000C and other devices that release
    SEL signal before BSY [?]
    MaxSyncSpeed = 5 # Set to 5 to enable synchronous SCSI mode


    # Settings that can be specified either per-device or for all devices.
    #Vendor = "QUANTUM"
    #Product = "FIREBALL1"
    #Version = "1.0"
    #Serial = "0123456789ABCDEF"
    #Type = 0 # 0: Fixed
    #TypeModifier = 0 # Affects only INQUIRY response [?]
    #SectorsPerTrack = 63
    #HeadsPerCylinder = 255
    #RightAlignStrings = 0 # Right-align SCSI vendor / product strings,
    defaults on if Quirks = 1 [?]
    #PrefetchBytes = 8192 # Maximum number of bytes to prefetch after a read request, 0 to disable
    #ReinsertCDOnInquiry = 1 # Reinsert any ejected CD-ROM image on Inquiry
    command

    # Raw sector range from SD card can be passed through
    # Format is RAW:first_sector:last_sector where sector numbers can be
    decimal or hex.
    # If end sector is beyond end of SD card, it will be adjusted automatically.
    # [SCSI4]
    # IMG0 = RAW:0x00000000:0xFFFFFFFF # Whole SD card

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    So it turns out you don't load real img to the drive. Just a dummy file of size X with the extension of img and that becomes like the "drive raw space" I guess to be later OS operated on..

    Still working with support because the model 77 doesn't like the SCSI side of things. Might be an ini work around.


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  • From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 11 04:22:13 2023
    Ryan, the FAQ is not clear on this, you are the pioneer.

    The Corvette and Spock got the adapter to cry uncle and produced crash dump files.

    He is working on it.

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  • From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 13 05:58:17 2023
    He's going to try it on his PS/2 this week and work out a fix.

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