ZuluSCSI Blaster set-up guide?

[JHanna]

Does such a thing exist?

Need to set it up in SCSI-2 synchronous mode to work with a 256GB SD card as unit 3 with parity disabled.

I believe it can all be set up without using UAE, but how?

Not sure if the Blaster has any settings different from the older type either...

 

[Boing-ball]

Does such a thing exist?

Need to set it up in SCSI-2 synchronous mode to work with a 256GB SD card as unit 3 with parity disabled.

I believe it can all be set up without using UAE, but how?

Not sure if the Blaster has any settings different from the older type either...

Worth looking at the videos Dr Chris has done here on setting up the older ZuluSCSI:

 

[JHanna]

Worth looking at the videos Dr Chris has done here on setting up the older ZuluSCSI:

Yeah. As i was saying, looking to do it without UAE. Think I've figured it out though.

Will post results for the benefit of others when I finally get it going.

Thanks.

 

[Boing-ball]

Yeah. As i was saying, looking to do it without UAE. Think I've figured it out though.

Will post results for the benefit of others when I finally get it going.

Thanks.

Good stuff. This is the issue when you buy new. Expectations on knowing what you got to do to get it working.
Look forward to your guide

 

[JHanna]

For anyone else starting from scratch, here's what you need to do:

1) format the SD card in exFAT format. (Or FAT if the card capacity is small, never NTFS though)

2) Create a file on the SD card called "Create xxxxM HDu0_bbbb.txt" where 'xxxx' will be the size in Megabytes of the emulated drive before partitioning etc. 'u' is the SCSI unit number, and 'bbbb' is block size. (The LUN is always 0)

So for example the text file would be called something like:

Create 10240M HD30_8192.txt

Which would create a 10GB disk as SCSI unit 3, LUN 0, with a block size of 8192.

3) Put the SD card in the ZuluSCSI, connect everything up, when you first turn the Amiga on, the ZuluSCSI will start creating the image. The green LED will flash rapidly as it's creating the image. THIS CAN TAKE AGES SO DON'T POWER OFF.

4) When the LED stops flashing, the inage creation is finished. Reboot the Amiga. You can now partition it like you would a normal hard disk. Note that the block size in HDToolbox must match the size that you specified when creating the image.

There are of course a lot of other ways of doing things, and it can get quite complicated, but this will at least get you going.

Hope this helps

 

[AmiFlyer]

Wouldn’t you want to make sure you have a system which supports large drives beyond 4Gb? Something I wouldn’t have remembered 9 months ago.
And this is timely since I was wondering how I might do this since it’s time to nuke my hda files and re-do the card. Thanks!

 

[JHanna]

Wouldn’t you want to make sure you have a system which supports large drives beyond 4Gb?

It's 2026 my guy

 

[AmiFlyer]

My point is someone who doesn’t know the limitations of 3.1 coming in fresh