[rescue] RASCSI or BlueSCSI in a SS5 or SS20?

[Jonathan Katz]

You can do everything from the ZuluSCSI.

On the SD card you can have CD6_512.iso which tells it the CD-ROM is
at SCSI ID six and 512 byte blocks. And then HD1_512.img (set up with
dd if=/dev/zero or mkfile, etc.) that becomes your raw disk with no
disklabel, and just do your install. I did that for Solaris 9 on my
SS20 about a week ago. Only issue is that the the OS doesn't like
C/H/S at 63/255/ etc and you need to change it up to have less
cylinders in the zuluscsi.ini file and it works a treat.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 9:19 AM Thomas Pelki <thomas.pelki.1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> are you able to boot the cdrom image (your OS of choice) and install to a blank file?(that looks like a hard drive to the OS)
> or do you have to use an external cdrom drive?
> -Thomas
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 11:04 PM Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just went with ZuluSCSI in my SS20. I plugged it j to the 50 pin connector for the CD-ROM. Works great. Only had to change out the cylinder/head/sector count for the drives in the .ini file as it didn’t like the default max values.
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 05:25, Thomas Pelki <thomas.pelki.1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> as I look to avoid the old spinning drives in an upcoming SS5 or SS20 coming my way, I've been looking at both RASCSI and BlueSCSI emulators. but Neither with an SCA connector. ether one would need an adapter from SCA<->50 pin SCSI for the emulator and the websites for both don't list whether either workstation has been tested with them.
>>>
>>> has anyone used one of these with either? or is there a different emulator I should be looking at?
>>>
>>> -Thomas
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>> -Jon
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