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@robin-fo There actually was and still is fragmentation because after updating to Apple Silicon Macs, my SD card life has become a living hell. No matter how many times I format the SD card ExFAT and then write files one at a time, one or more of my 2GB files ends up saying "fragmented" in the...

@speakers Thank you for your kind feedback and willingness to test. MacBench 3.0 is brain dead when it comes to crashing, but it's the newest version we can run on an SE/30. It's also far better than SCSI Director Pro 4.0 to give you a complete idea of how faster your drive is. But I get...

Kai, thank you very much for your reply! I have two BlueSCSI v2's, both with PICO-W. Each have their own SD card, each card formatted with HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (patched). I have verified the "7.3.5" driver is correct using SCSI Director Pro 4.0. One card is a SanDisk Extreme 32GB V30 uSD, and...

SE/30 owners, if you have a BlueSCSI v2, could you please run MacBench 3.0 "All Disk Tests" and post your scores? (Please use only MacBench and only version 3.0.) I'm seeing seriously sluggish BSv2 performance in MacBench 3.0 on my SE/30 (with or without accelerators), despite the fact that...

I thought Mark Jozaitis had at least one Lisa, if not more than one.

I acquired my Rocket from the original owner who at some point in the past had removed the CPU in order to repurpose it in another Mac. So before he shipped the card to me, he acquired another 68040 CPU which of course did not have a heat sink on it, and he sent that CPU to me along with the...

I absolutely have the 33MHz version. I added the gold heatsink to the CPU (which is a CPU that has the FPU). I also purchased some purple RAM from SiliconInsider, and I must say it's the lowest profile RAM I've ever used. Love the gold-plating too, which you don't see on most other RAM SIMMs...

I really wish I had the quick answer for you, @Paolo B. I know you're just like me, hoping for quick answers because it's Golden Week here in Japan and you'd prefer to quickly get this issue resolved so you can move on to more productive tasks such as actually using your drive! The problem...

That is a question I unfortunately cannot answer, but I am still wracking my brains over how the addition of 2 resistors could cause such a catastrophe. I found your earlier post where you mentioned the "possibility" of ESD, but there's always the possibility for that. I tend to be rather...

Wow. It does look like a compact Mac!

What does the Soundbox even do?

Which means it is compatible with 400K disks too, but whether or not it requires an HFS formatted disk is something I do not know. The oldest 400K disks were MFS (Macintosh File System). Keep in mind it is possible to format 800K disks as MFS too. So if your drive cannot read any MFS disks...

Because the 5126 Portable I purchased was from a US-based seller, I decided to pay Thomas Andrews (Amiga of Rochester) to recap my machine and do trace repairs. Audio worked fine when I received the machine, but it does have noise issues described here. What I can tell you is that during my...

@Paolo B Because @Androda and @eric area not replying, I strongly recommend sending them both a PM.

I tend to agree with @Paolo B here. You've had it for so many years that I doubt anyone else out there would treat it with as much respect as you have. Perhaps that doesn't matter anymore because you are out of space to store it or now have a wife who is making certain demands. :-) And that's...

In terms of "practical" worth, it can be argued that pretty much all of our vintage computers from the 1980's and 90's are nearly worthless. But most people don't think along those lines. They tend to value machines based on what similar machines are selling for at any give point in time. For...

@Paolo B I'm terribly sorry to hear that. What baffles me is that this resistor mod is merely the addition of two 4.7kΩ "pull-up resistors." You are pulling the voltage level of those two pins on the PICO up to 5V through resistors. So even if the PICO side was completely ground, it wouldn't...

Sorry to hear nothing else worked. Desoldering that PICO is always a last resort, even if you have a good tool like the FR-301 desoldering gun. Honestly, until now, I've always wondered why I seemed to be the lone man on the planet with these oddball BlueSCSIv2 issues, mainly because I don't...

@Paolo B Thank you for clarifying. I am relieved that your Portable has not been affected. I see from your earlier screenshot that you have a version of BSv2 older than mine. YOURS: MINE: It is a fact that my 2023.03a version worked fine with the dual resistor mod. I actually did that...

Meaning, you disconnected your bricked BlueSCSI from your Portable and connected only a known-good and fully bootable SCSI drive to your Portable externally (no other SCSI device attached other than that external), and your Portable still would not boot from it? Also, can you confirm your...