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Arbystpossum

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Jan 8, 2024
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I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more than ~20MB to the BlueSCSI from network/External SCSI, the system will freeze, eventually a system file will get caught up in the mess and it will boot to a [?] icon. Only under System 7 though. I'm not sure why.
 

Nycturne

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Dec 18, 2024
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I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more than ~20MB to the BlueSCSI from network/External SCSI, the system will freeze, eventually a system file will get caught up in the mess and it will boot to a [?] icon. Only under System 7 though. I'm not sure why.

I've had a BlueSCSI drive image corrupt itself in a Quadra 605, but it was overclocked at the time, which meant the SCSI chip was operating out of spec. IS your's on the stock clock speed?
 

eric

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Sep 2, 2021
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I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more than ~20MB to the BlueSCSI from network/External SCSI, the system will freeze, eventually a system file will get caught up in the mess and it will boot to a [?] icon. Only under System 7 though. I'm not sure why.
Please go through the troubleshooting guide https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Troubleshooting#what-to-try-first - solves 99% of issues. Report back with a debug log if you are still having issues after completing all steps.
 

AlexMac

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Jun 22, 2023
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Bavaria
I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more than ~20MB to the BlueSCSI from network/External SCSI, the system will freeze, eventually a system file will get caught up in the mess and it will boot to a [?] icon. Only under System 7 though. I'm not sure why.
Reminds me of the time when I was still using SanDisk SD Cards. I regularly lost my images with several of them. What make of SD Card are you using? Have you tried another one?