ZuluSCSI image questions

[applesos]

This may have been discussed before- I have 3 ZuluSCSIs - 2 RP2040s installed in laptops and 1 v6.4 rev 2024 in an SE (the one that fell off my bench last time I was working on it). The RP2040s allow me to transfer .hda files made in most emulators and more recently using tools like InfiniteMac without issue- my understanding is that the Blaster does this too, along with all boards that are currently sold.

The v6.4 board, however, refuses to recognize anything at all unless I bless it with Lido or Silver Lining, which then makes the SD card itself unrecognizable by any current-gen Macs I use since the whole thing becomes an HFS disk.

MacEffects inadvertently didn't ship my Performer drivers on a floppy, and this has led to me getting stuck specifically because I cannot just drop things arbitrarily onto an .hda image with sheepshaver/minivmac/whatever and then put it back in the ZuluSCSI's SD card with my 6.4.

Is it an intentional design quirk of the v6.4 that it treats the entire SD card as a SCSI disk rather than performing logical management of images itself? Am I using it wrong? Am I just crazy?

 

[eharmon]

This may have been discussed before- I have 3 ZuluSCSIs - 2 RP2040s installed in laptops and 1 v6.4 rev 2024 in an SE (the one that fell off my bench last time I was working on it). The RP2040s allow me to transfer .hda files made in most emulators and more recently using tools like InfiniteMac without issue- my understanding is that the Blaster does this too, along with all boards that are currently sold.

The v6.4 board, however, refuses to recognize anything at all unless I bless it with Lido or Silver Lining, which then makes the SD card itself unrecognizable by any current-gen Macs I use since the whole thing becomes an HFS disk.

MacEffects inadvertently didn't ship my Performer drivers on a floppy, and this has led to me getting stuck specifically because I cannot just drop things arbitrarily onto an .hda image with sheepshaver/minivmac/whatever and then put it back in the ZuluSCSI's SD card with my 6.4.

Is it an intentional design quirk of the v6.4 that it treats the entire SD card as a SCSI disk rather than performing logical management of images itself? Am I using it wrong? Am I just crazy?

Are you sure it's not a SCSI2SD? Those only support raw card access, though you can split the card into multiple drives with the utility.

 

[zigzagjoe]

ZuluSCSI 6.4 is a SCSI2SD-type device, it doesn't do image files.

 

[finkmac]

yeah this is a fairly common question. The v6.4 is designed to mimic the SCSI2SD and functions in the same way… it’s generally not what normal users want. I recommend selling it and buying another rp2040.

 

[applesos]

Very happy that this is just how the particular board works and not that I just am missing something basic in how to use it.

I bought it a few years ago and haven't switched it out because I didn't need to do much with the SE beyond installing something via FloppyEMU once in a blue moon, so making changes to the image itself wasn't really something that would have been required. I ordered the new Blaster a few days ago to install as a replacement anyway. Assuming that one also works like the 2040s since the 6.4 seems to be the exception to that?