BlueSCSI Toolbox - NeXT Edition

[eric]

Some real life stuff came up and VCF-MW so I'll be getting back to this in October.

I did make some progress on some other NeXT features. I do have SCSI Floppy disks working - but the bane of my work on this is WM not "recognizing" what things are for some time. I mount a CD/Disk even at boot it takes a full minute or two for it to "see" that it's not just a folder mounted, but an actual removable disk, then the icons change and update correctly. I'm not really sure why it behaves this way. I'll have to hook up a real scsi floppy/real scsi CD, but I believe it'll behave the same way.

 

[itomato]

There are some commands you can send to refresh and reread. Try ‘disk’ and ‘scsimgr -r’. These might be in 0.8 through 4.2.

 

[amiga.technology]

Did this project die? Looks neat! Is it available anywhere?

 

[eric]

Die? No. just a lot of other priorities going on. I do plan to pick it back up again, but it's still a few down the list of other priorities.

 

[PL212]

Really appreciate your work on this! I have an 030 cube for testing once you reach that point.

 

[Huxley]

Hi @eric ! Hope it's okay to revive this old thread, but I'm super curious: did the NeXTSTEP version of the BlueSCSI Toolbox ever evolve beyond the point noted here? I'm installing a BlueSCSI in my TurboColor and my Cube and I'd love to be able to use the added features...

Thanks!

Huxley

 

[eric]

I have it on my TODO's for far too long, spent some time tonight and got almost everything done for a cli

# hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 4.2: Tue Jan 26 11:23:59 PST 1999; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.34.4.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K

Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 5
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 128.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 41 tasks, 74 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 0.99


# ./bluescsi --list-files /dev/sg0a
greeting.txt 20 bytes
notes.txt 12 bytes
#

So for sure a CLI very soon, and maybe I can resurrect the GUI work i did a while ago.

 

[Michael]

Hi @eric ,

if needed, I can help you in testing your application, if you can compile into a NIHS package. I do have NeXTSTEP running on a HP9000 712/100 since this late afternoon (thanks to the help of @Purdy , an older BlueSCSI firmware and some changes to bluescsi.ini according to @JdM74 ), and I hope to have it running on a SPARCStation SS20 soon.

Best, Michael