ZuluSCSI Hard Drive Replacement for the Amiga Review

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10 ай бұрын

This week on ‪@10MARC‬ I am reviewing the fairly new ZuluSCSI hard drive replacement from our friends at RabbitHole Computing. Come join me as I go over the features and show you how to use this nifty goodie!
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@ToddsNerdCave 10 ай бұрын

Great video Doug! I have several BlueSCSI v1 and v2 for my vintage Macs, but wish I had scsi on any of my Amigas. All these new scsi emulators are just awesome.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

The neat thing about ZuluSCSI is that it eliminated the need for that blue pill Arduino thing. I know it's a lot faster than 1.1 BlueSCSI, but I know version 2 of BlueSCSI made dramatic improvements

@zombierabbit3593 13 күн бұрын

Great info for HD replacement! X forever, it isn't going burn out!!!!

@hessex1899 10 ай бұрын

I just got one of these for my NeXT. I haven't set it up, however. I just started the video but I am fairly sure that what I learn here is applicable to that platform as well. Thanks again for posting. :)

@10MARC 10 ай бұрын

I think it will pertain just fine! It should use all the same file formats and everything. NeXT is certainly a nifty platform. Years ahead of other machines, just like the AMIGA.

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

Now all it needs is audio output to make those old scsi-HD sounds :D Good video, some really good hardware popping up the last years.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

Haha! That's the first thing I don't miss! That squealing whine!

@BuddhaPhi 10 ай бұрын

I've been loving the ZuluSCSI for all of my retro systems that have SCSI. I've tried all of the newer RP2040 ZuluSCSI models. They've all worked every time on anything I've tried: Amiga 500 with GVP A530, Amiga 2000 with GVP, Mac SE/30, various PowerPC Macs and so forth. My SCSI2SD board died and it was such a pain to setup anyway. For naming convenience extended names like "hd2.WB31_DLs.hda" also work. As long as the name starts with something such as "hd1..." or "hd20_512..." (BlueSCSI syntax) and has an .hda extension you're good! I typically put a dot after the "hd[0-6)" part before any extra text though BlueSCSI names with spaces also seem to work just as well.

@10MARC 10 ай бұрын

That's good to know that you can put descriptive text after the HD text! That will certainly help in making an archive of various systems and installations! I agree that these little guys just "work"!

@HKvalhe 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video 🥰❤️🙏

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

@HKvalhe 9 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Always a pleasure, Douglas 🥰❤️🙏

@boydpukalo8980 9 ай бұрын

Another cool video. I recently received a couple ZuluSCSI RP2040 Compact Homebrews.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration 10 ай бұрын

Dont forget to set max transfer to 0x1fe00 so you dont have weirdo math problems on partition access

@10MARC 10 ай бұрын

Those numbers are for IDE - SCSI is quite a bit different. like 0xffffffff and 0xfffff

@mnemo70 9 ай бұрын

"I absolutely hate the backdrop!" *enables backdrop* 😀

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

It's the moveable backdrop I cannot stand.

@mnemo70 9 ай бұрын

@@10MARCI'd call it "window". :)

@LeftoverBeefcake 10 ай бұрын

I have a ZuluSCSI floppin' out back of my CDTV, and after I set everything (OS 3.1) up, it Just Works. It's brilliant and I love it. Though I really need to design and 3D print some kind of bracket so it looks a little more elegant... right now it looks a little... undignified...

@10MARC 10 ай бұрын

It is so nice to have a hard drive on a CDTV. I have used both a BlueSCSI and an external SCSI2SD on my CDTV and it just opens up so many options!

@pauledwards2817 9 ай бұрын

Using the rev11 SuperBuster for the fast lane? It was the thing to give away the finished buster with Z3 cards.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

I think mine is rev 11.

@jdryyz 9 ай бұрын

I get 6.5MB/s with my ZuluSCSI on the A3000 using the PFS3-AIO file system.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

With just the standard Amiga 3000 SCSI? I don't think it can run that fast, and PFS does not speed things up that much. Try it with the "Diskspeed" Program. I bet Sysinfo misinterprets it.

@jdryyz 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking the same because you know how much we can trust the always reliable SysInfo. RSCP reports around the same, however. I will have to give DiskSpeed a try also. I see it is on Aminet.

@shieladixon 9 ай бұрын

I know you were only kidding about throwing my Macs in the bin so I won't take offence. I'm sure others have pointed it out too, but I can happily format a card to ExFat without installing anything special. I hope that helps.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

Really? I thought it only could do FAT32! I guess I need to go dig my Macs out of the trash now.

@CutieHoney 9 ай бұрын

I have a ZuluSCSI in my CMD HD.

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

Oh really! That's awesome that it works! How big of a partition does the CMD support?

@CutieHoney 9 ай бұрын

@@10MARC With the latest ROM, 4G is supported. This allows for 254 16MB partitions.

@drphilxr 9 ай бұрын

Got my own zuluSCSI today- made the HD0.hda, but WinUAE won't let me create another larger file, for HD1.hda....hmmm... not sure why? (create button ghosted)

@drphilxr 9 ай бұрын

(noticed scsi wasn't selected in create hardfile, just the uae drive- my first .hda isn't recognized in hdtoolbox using scsi.device)

@10MARC 9 ай бұрын

You don't have to mess with any settings at all when creating the HDA file. It is just a raw file. To get the create button to light up you first have to give the HDA file a size. Type in the size, and the button activates.

@drphilxr 9 ай бұрын

@@10MARC forgot to enter the size, doh! Thankyou for all the .hdf making tips at end (using WinUAE). And the fact this doesn’t need power off the A3K. Getting it all together now- just wondering where did you get the custom Zulu faceplate for the 3000?

@garyhart6421 8 ай бұрын

Just got a BlueScsi v2 for my GVP A500 HD+. I don't know what is the max image size I could use (4.4 ROM) --- So I just stuck a 540 Meg one on = Cool. Will experiment with larger and CD images later. #Update# Added CDs or second HD (same size) gives errors = gvpscsi.device: unit 000 Unexpected Status $4E/$20 No errors in the log file ???

@10MARC 8 ай бұрын

Even with Workbench 2.x you can easily do a 4 Gig image. Just remember thatm if you go above 4 Gigs to format the SD card with exFat!

@garyhart6421 8 ай бұрын

Went exFat from the start I think it is a ROM problem @@10MARC

@10MARC 8 ай бұрын

@@garyhart6421 my A2090 SCSI card can only see 1 GB images, but that was such a poorly performing card, I think I sold it