erichelgeson
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6 months ago Just randomly came across this question while filing a DJ feature - you are correct it only included the Beta 2 which was for BlueSCSI v2 only. I'd suggest grabbing the latest v1 firmware and latest toolbox.
Thank you very much for creating ‘Disk Jockey’ and my apologies in advance for what may be ignorant questions about usage.
I have a vintage Macintosh Plus recently removed from long-term storage. It seems to be working well and I added a BlueSCSI Version 2 emulator which boots fine into Systems 6 and 7. I also did the 'Diode Mod' on the logic board to power the BlueSCSI from the SCSI port and it’s working fine too. I used Disk Jockey and your excellent ‘One Geek Army’ tutorial to create a .hda System 7.1 image file with a 20MB hard drive and the ROM Disk. As you can see from the attached screen grabs that seemed to work fine too.
I’m a long time Mac User but completely new to the complexities of the wonderful Macintosh Plus and file and app transfers and installations. Although I’m unclear about how to do it I understand I can use the ‘BlueSCSI SD Transfer’ app on the ROM Disk to copy files and applications to and from the BlueSCSI. But when I double-clicked on the ‘BlueSCSI SD Transfer’ app I got the error message shown in the attached screen grab - ’No compatible BlueSCSI’s found’.
Could this be because I’m using ‘BlueSCSI Version 2’ and it’s not compatible with the ‘Disk Jockey’ .hda and ROM Disk file creation? Another thing I remembered which might be a factor is that when I first tried to boot from the .hda/ROM files created by DiskJockey I used System 6.0.8 and I forgot to include the ‘bluescsi.ini’ file. So I got the Macintosh Plus question mark, but when I booted into a previous .hda SD card file the ROM Disk appeared on the Desktop. So it seems I created a ROM disk with my first failed boot but somehow the Disk Jockey SD files created the ROM disk.
Could there be a mismatch between this ROM disk and subsequent Disk Jockey .hda image/ROM creations for System 7.1 which is the System I’m currently using once I realised my mistake omitting ‘bluescsi.ini’.
And while I’m asking as a complete newbie can I ask how I might create a set of Macintosh Plus System Disks for 6.0.8 or 7.1 using Disk Jockey. I only have three 800K floppies at the moment - MacPaint, MacWrite, and another EA floppy which I might try to write three of the four System Floppy boot images to. Can I do that from Disk Jockey? And will I be able to download MacPaint and MacWrite and install them on my Disk Jockey created. 20MB file? Does that 20MB limit the space I can use on my 32GB microSD card or can I just keep adding Macintosh Plus compatible applications as I find them?
Thanks,
Roy