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Well I've ordered a new cable from Shenzhen for a few pounds, to cut up. I will post photos.

The BlueSCSI v2 needs to be mounted upside down for best placement of the Raspberry Pi Pico's WiFi antenna - otherwise it would be up against the metal drive cage. So it needs one full twist of the SCSI ribbon, which is what made me think of slitting the cable.

10 pin cut interval. Interesting, thanks for sharing.

ChatGPT suggests, based on my description, that it's likely a polyurethane (PU) coating on that lining fabric which has hydrolized. May have served as a moisture barrier. It's not too optimistic of a simple cleanup, rather suggesting replacement of the lining. That would be pretty tricky since...

Some cleaning tips I could find here: A mention of disintegrating fabric:

I was lucky enough to get one of the official carry bags with my Macintosh SE/30 but it's got some sort of material rot problem where it's shedding black powder on anything I put inside. It has a tear at one of the seams and through this I can see that the main white foam padding layer is fine...

I'm certain I have seen official Macintosh internal SCSI cables with multiple slits in them to ease folding and cable routing, and even for improving airflow. In my own SE/30 I have to put two 45 degree folds in my SCSI cable and can only just do this. Would slitting the cable help in this...

Try different SD cards would be my suggestion. The first few I tried (old low capacity ones from a drawer, because I figured they only need to sustain 10MB/sec) sort of worked fine. They'd boot but then I'd install something and then I'd get the boot question mark floppy. These cards had worked...

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No. The dummy SD part of it was a bit tight in the board's SD socket, but it's fine. I had a lot of corruption issues with certain bad SD cards though - before I bought the extension. I put that down to them being very low spec though, old small capacity ones I had in a drawer (2GB, 4GB). It's...

I have an SE/30 and when I first tested my BlueSCSI v2 I thought I would need the Berg connector because the text file log on the SD card reported slightly under the target voltage. I bought a Berg connector and then discovered the exact same voltage was reported, so I don't bother connecting...

I've noticed that on the Mac SE/30 the fireplace on the title screen of Beyond Dark Castle is not animated when idle. When the game starts the animation is fine. The idle fireplace animation is fine on the 68000 models of Macintosh. I noticed there was a slightly newer build of the game on...

Good point. I've gone back and installed the initial release of 7.1 and the boot time is identical to 7.0.1. However, the file requestor missing icon problem is still there. 😞 But then I applied System Update 3.0 (intended for 7.1, 7.1.1 Pro, and 7.1.2) and it fixed it! :) Reading through the...

I tried the pre-made OpenRaSCSI 7.1.1 image that is part of a big bundle on the BlueSCSI site and it seems quite a bit slower to boot than 7.0.1.

It's an SE/30 so I flip between 6.0.8 for games, and 7.0.1 for apps. I find 7.5.3 is already so much slower to start. But I have unpacked the OpenRaSCSI pre-made build of 7.0.1 and that exhibits this issue - so I don't think my install is corrupted. Does this bug not manifest for you? As I...