CD disc switcher for ZuluSCSI?

[Forrest]

About two weeks ago, BlueSCSI released their CD Switcher program which is described by “This utility allows you eject and insert another CD. Place up to 100 images in a folder called CD3 (where 3 is the SCSI ID you wish to use) on the root of your SD card. When clicking “Switch” it will eject the old CD and mount the new one.”

This sounds like a useful program.

Are there plans to make a similiar program for the ZuluSCSI?

 

[macuserman]

About two weeks ago, BlueSCSI released their CD Switcher program which is described by “This utility allows you eject and insert another CD. Place up to 100 images in a folder called CD3 (where 3 is the SCSI ID you wish to use) on the root of your SD card. When clicking “Switch” it will eject the old CD and mount the new one.”

This sounds like a useful program.

Are there plans to make a similiar program for the ZuluSCSI?

The code for both bluescsi and zulu are open source.... So anything can be done if you find someone motivated.

 

[Daniël]

The code for both bluescsi and zulu are open source.... So anything can be done if you find someone motivated.

The BlueSCSI utilities are, however, not open source. So that side of the business would still need to be fully recoded.

 

[cheesestraws]

Ah, that much vaunted non-commercial and open attitude they have

 

[zigzagjoe]

I don't know if that bluescsi utility lets you actually pick which disk you want, but if all you need is to round-robin cycle through disks you can do the same with zulu: put CDs in a folder and eject the disk within mac os to swap disks. I believe models with a button can also use that to cycle through disks.

 

[Forrest]

Macintosh Librarian released a video on her YouTube channel upgrading her Mac clone, installing a BlueSCSI and demoing the CD switcher

 

[demik]

I don't know if that bluescsi utility lets you actually pick which disk you want, but if all you need is to round-robin cycle through disks you can do the same with zulu: put CDs in a folder and eject the disk within mac os to swap disks. I believe models with a button can also use that to cycle through disks.

That's how it's working. I believe it's in the open source code. Configuration looks like this:

[SCSI3]
Vendor = "MATSHITA"
Product = "CD-ROM CR-8005A"
Version = "4.0i"
Type = 2
# If IMG0..IMG9 are specified, they are cycled after each CD eject command.
IMG0 = 5200.iso
IMG1 = Warcraft.iso
IMG2 = Debian2CD1.iso
IMG3 = Debian2CD2.iso
IMG4 = Debian2CD3.iso
IMG5 = PrinceCDColl.iso
IMG6 = UltimateSpinDoctor.iso

 

[zigzagjoe]

That's how it's working. I believe it's in the open source code. Configuration looks like this:

[SCSI3]
Vendor = "MATSHITA"
Product = "CD-ROM CR-8005A"
Version = "4.0i"
Type = 2
# If IMG0..IMG9 are specified, they are cycled after each CD eject command.
IMG0 = 5200.iso
IMG1 = Warcraft.iso
IMG2 = Debian2CD1.iso
IMG3 = Debian2CD2.iso
IMG4 = Debian2CD3.iso
IMG5 = PrinceCDColl.iso
IMG6 = UltimateSpinDoctor.iso

You don't even need to explicitly list images - just drop them in the folder. I have a folder named CD6 and this in my config:

[SCSI6]
Type=2 ; CD-ROM
Quirks=1 ; Apple