Proposal: BlueSCSI project

[MikeyBad]

Greetings,

Pulled all of my old Amigas out of storage and started to get them running again. There is a full set here, Several A500s, A2000 (HD as well), A2500, A3000, A4000, a single A1000 and the Unicorn A3000T .... My son and I started with an A3000. The first challenge was the floppy drives, this machine had two (Toshiba's) and we managed to get one working. Out of my huge collection of software, I have yet to find working copies of Workbench - in any capacity. Couple this problem with the fact that the two hard drives in this machine are also not working (SCSI 1 from motherboard) ... I found a working copy of Oh No More Lemmings -> used it to test the A3000 .... after kicking my son off of the A3000 (Lemmings Addict) ... I started to think ....

If I could get a BlueSCSI v2 with a 16 GB SD card configured a bootable partition loaded with Workbench ....This would simplify the entire testing process for all of the machines I have in my queue. Having a SD card with each of the various Workbench revisions - again makes the testing process a lot easier ...

Having the various Workbench on a SD card would also mean I could clone the card, buy another BlueSCSI ... and get another Amiga working. At least thats the theory - am I correct in that once working you can clone what was done?

I dont have experience with BlueSCSI ... and I am having problems finding working versions of Workbench .... Anyone have suggestions? Or can steer me to some sort of solution? Can you partition the SD to have a Bootable partition and several empty partitions? Those are just a few of many questions I have at the moment ...

Mikey

 

[levo-ace]

Have youhad a look at the SDBox , with a single floppy and this it could test any amiga you would want it too .
https://github.com/jbilander/sdbox

 

[Boing-ball]

Your best bet if doing the all in one solution is to use Workbench 3.1 (AmigaOS 3.1). Anything higher requires things like specific Modules and Libraries for CPUs to function.

Yes you can easily clone an SD card with free software like WinImager32 on a PC and write it back.

One thing to consider with BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI is how you setup the .hda Disk Image as this determines SCSI ID number.

Edit:

To add, the BlueSCSI option will only work if the rest of your Amigas Support SCSI. A3000, A3000T and A4000T are the only machines with built in SCSI.