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Archive for the ‘SCSI’ Category

Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

Despite beta or early alpha quality [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver by by [Wayback/Archive] RetroTech Chris – YouTube is very cool.

Main source: [Wayback/Archive] daynaport-dos-packet-driver/src/dayna.c at main · cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver · GitHub

Related:

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Posted in C, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, MS-DOS, Network-and-equipment, SCSI, Software Development, TSR Terminate and Stay Resitent, Turbo C | Leave a Comment »

On-line PC part compatibility checker: Pick parts

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23

If I ever want to build a PC again, this site helps me assemble the parts and check their compatibility: [Wayback/Archive] Pick parts. Build your PC. Compare and share. – PCPartPicker

Of course it is not a 100% coverage or guarantee, but it will you a lot of hints when on-line configuring a system.

This is the system a friend was configuring and I was quite positively surprised:

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Posted in CPU, Hardware, HDD, M.2/NGFF, Mainboards, Memory, PC PSU, PCIe/PCI-e/PCI Express, Power User, PSU, SAS/SATA, SCSI, SSD, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08

Cool (and available both for regular Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Zero):

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.

I wonder how it compares feature wise and performance wise to [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI (which is Raspberry Pi Pico based, see [Wayback/Archive] index – BlueSCSI v2 Documentation, and now has a [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory – joshua stein which is open source at [Wayback/Archive] jcs/wifi_da – BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for classic Mac OS – AmendHub and important to for instance [Wayback/Archive] Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable – joshua stein).

Via [Wayback/Archive] The RaSCSI is MAGIC for Old Macs (and Much More!) – YouTube

More links:

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Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Macintosh SE/30, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, Retrocomputing, RP2040, SCSI, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

Converting an existing XP machine to a VMware ESXi  Virtual Machine and having boot issues?

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/02

A while ago I wrote about Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other).

After this, the machine still had boot issues (a grey or black screen after boot, unless booted via Grub from a rescue CD).

The solution in retrospect was simple, but I only figured out after the fact what the solution had done.

Of course this gave me a facepalm moment, as back in the days, this was exactly the warning I gave everyone when installing Windows XP on ESXi anyway: use a SCSI buslogic based virtual disk, not an IDE or SATA virtual disk.

The reason is that Windows XP does not like the IDE/SATA disk that VMware provides. Windows Vista and up are less of a problem.

This is indeed what my practical solution did:

  • VMware Converter 4.x creates a VM with an IDE/SATA disk (as it cannot talk to the more recent ESXi versions at all because of API changes)
  • VMware Converter 6.x creates a VM with a buslogic SCSI base disk (and it can create it directly on your ESXi rig, though it will use a directory in the root of your data store, even if you prefer it somewhere deeper in the directory tree)

References:

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Hardware, Power User, SAS/SATA, SCSI, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »