sideburn Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Hi All, I've got a working SH204 but the MFM drive is on its last leg. I have to spin the stepper motor by hand to kick start the drive on power up to get it to work. So, I've got a spare BlueSCSI for desktop in my parts bin that will plug right into the ACSI to SCSI interface board in the SH204. My problem is I only have experience setting up BlueSCSI on 68K macs. On the ST side I do have a working external UltraSatan with a Disk image all setup and working that is using the PP drivers. My question is how do I configure the BlueSCSI disk image? I tried taking the US image file and renaming it HD00-2GB.img but that does not appear to be working. The activity lights blink when I power up the bluescsi by itself but I get no logging or anything. I also do not have any entries into my bluescsi.ini because I don't know what is needed there, if anything. When I power up the SH204 there's no activity on the BlueSCSI either. Anyone have any knowledge in these areas that could help me? Thanks, -Tavis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I do not know anything about BlueSCSI, but you might want make the HD size smaller. There is a 1 gig limit for most hard drive adapters on the ST. Here is some info that might help. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/353760-atari-sh204-upgrade/#comment-5297138 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/274056-install-scsi2sd-in-atari-sh204/#comment-3930216 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideburn Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 (edited) Thanks yeah it’s not the HD image size. The drive is partitioned into separate 512 size drives. Thats just the SD card size. Reading the links and it’s not looking too promising. Might have to seek out an mfm emulator. I guess the first boards is not you standard scsi interface… Edited January 28 by sideburn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarkdluG Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) I have tested v1 and v2 of BlueSCSI. It worked fine. But I can't remember anything specific I did. And I don't have access to the stuff at the moment so I can't check the INI file. Edited January 28 by snarkdluG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djglish Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I had a topic going on a SH204 that I couldn't get working. Here is the link According to one of the posters the controller is SASE instead of true SCSI. It would only handle a 40mb to 80mb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarkdluG Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 5 minutes ago, djglish said: According to one of the posters the controller is SASI instead of true SCSI. It would only handle a 40mb to 80mb drive. That explains a lot. SCSI wasn't a standard back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.