[Video] BlueSCSIv2 on the Falcon

[Badwolf]

Happy new year to all!

I like to post here when I've a relevant video up, so despite me actually releasing this last week, here's a link for me having a play with the BlueSCSI2 on the Falcon.

I know I'm perhaps a bit of a latecomer to this but it's a lovely product if you have a particular need for it. I was very keen to test out the WiFi networking, but speeds were slow.

I also had odd issues with EmuTOS, which I need to look into if I get a chance. Perhaps other BlueSCSI users could let me know if they have similar problems around freezing Daynaport transfers or hanging/crashes with MiNT+EmuTOS?

Cheers,

BW

[Steve]

FYI I measured 120k/s with bluescsi wifi daynaport on my Falcon & TT. I don't get any hangs or crashes. I *did* have issues once, but it was related to my routers wifi settings rather than the device itself.

[Badwolf]

FYI I measured 120k/s with bluescsi wifi daynaport on my Falcon & TT. I don't get any hangs or crashes. I *did* have issues once, but it was related to my routers wifi settings rather than the device itself.

Thanks, Steve. Is that kilobits or kilobytes?

The former would be broadly in line with what I measured. I've not looked at the code: perhaps it's emulating a 115k serial line?

BW

[Steve]

kilobytes I think, ill double check.

[Steve]

Sorry I was imagining things, it's on average about 30kb/s. This speed is perfectly adequate for me, since I don't use network to transfer large files to the machines. If I want to do large files, I either put them directly onto the Bluescsi drive image using Hatari, or I use USB drives with Netusbee. The networking is just a nice convenience for little things like automatically updating the system clock with NTP, browsing FTP and perhaps little visits to frogfind.com sometimes.

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[viking272]

Good video, thanks BW.
I think as Steve points out having a slow wifi connection is often all you need.
I'm about to test my replaced BlueSCSI device also in the Falcon after testing it in my Mega, so this is good timing!

[whomper]

Thanks @Badwolf for making that video. I referenced it when trying to understand why my Falcon will not recognize my bluescsi2 external (found out it had a trace cut in fabrication...).

Now that I have a DFB1X, bluescsiv2 I'm having issues with TT Ram and SCSI. I'm testing with EmuTOS 1.4 but it does not recognize bluescsi. I see in your video you got bluescsi recognized in EmuTos 1.3 so I'm wondering how did you get that to work?

Thanks

[Badwolf]

Thanks @Badwolf for making that video. I referenced it when trying to understand why my Falcon will not recognize my bluescsi2 external (found out it had a trace cut in fabrication...).

Now that I have a DFB1X, bluescsiv2 I'm having issues with TT Ram and SCSI. I'm testing with EmuTOS 1.4 but it does not recognize bluescsi. I see in your video you got bluescsi recognized in EmuTos 1.3 so I'm wondering how did you get that to work?

Thanks

Hi there. Yes, I had no problem with EmuTOS at all. With HDDriver I had to use an updated patch program that's been included from a few revisions back but that's an HDDriver issue.

I'd remove all AUTO folder programs and use plain EmuTOS and see how you get on. If it doesn't work, perhaps you have a clock patch issue?

That said, I was using DFB1 rather than the 1X. Not sure if that has an effect.

Cheers,

BW