So, today I tried to figure out why the modified BlueSCSI board is no longer working.
At first, I suspected the hand-made SCSI cable was the culprit, as the modification to the board was looking neat. In fact, I could identify one line that was maybe a little loose at the connector. But eventually the cable seems to be fine, I can connect and use a SCSI2SD (only other SCSI device I have at hand).
So, I’ve tried absolutely anything I could figure out with the BlueSCSI board / SD card, but to no avail.
Before modifying the board, I made a copy of all the files on the SD card. The HD images are deemed as OK by Disk Jokey but are not longer recognized.
I updated the firmware of the Pico, formatted many times the SD, tried with virgin images. Nothing, the SCSI bus just hangs.
So, I reverted the mods, resoldered the resistor in and removed the 4.7k Ohm ones.
The BuleSCSI seems to be bricked, the Portable doesn’t even get to the disk with the pulsating question mark.
If I connect an external SCSI device, it’s not recognized, so it seems as though something is totally messed up with the SCSI chain.
Is there any way for understanding a little more about what is going on?
At first, I suspected the hand-made SCSI cable was the culprit, as the modification to the board was looking neat. In fact, I could identify one line that was maybe a little loose at the connector. But eventually the cable seems to be fine, I can connect and use a SCSI2SD (only other SCSI device I have at hand).
So, I’ve tried absolutely anything I could figure out with the BlueSCSI board / SD card, but to no avail.
Before modifying the board, I made a copy of all the files on the SD card. The HD images are deemed as OK by Disk Jokey but are not longer recognized.
I updated the firmware of the Pico, formatted many times the SD, tried with virgin images. Nothing, the SCSI bus just hangs.
So, I reverted the mods, resoldered the resistor in and removed the 4.7k Ohm ones.
The BuleSCSI seems to be bricked, the Portable doesn’t even get to the disk with the pulsating question mark.
If I connect an external SCSI device, it’s not recognized, so it seems as though something is totally messed up with the SCSI chain.
Is there any way for understanding a little more about what is going on?