BlueSCSI Toolbox - NeXT Edition

Some real life stuff came up and VCF-MW so I'll be getting back to this in October.

I did make some progress on some other NeXT features. I do have SCSI Floppy disks working - but the bane of my work on this is WM not "recognizing" what things are for some time. I mount a CD/Disk even at boot it takes a full minute or two for it to "see" that it's not just a folder mounted, but an actual removable disk, then the icons change and update correctly. I'm not really sure why it behaves this way. I'll have to hook up a real scsi floppy/real scsi CD, but I believe it'll behave the same way.
 
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There are some commands you can send to refresh and reread. Try ‘disk’ and ‘scsimgr -r’. These might be in 0.8 through 4.2.
 
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Really appreciate your work on this! I have an 030 cube for testing once you reach that point.
 
Hi @eric ! Hope it's okay to revive this old thread, but I'm super curious: did the NeXTSTEP version of the BlueSCSI Toolbox ever evolve beyond the point noted here? I'm installing a BlueSCSI in my TurboColor and my Cube and I'd love to be able to use the added features...

Thanks!

Huxley
 
I have it on my TODO's for far too long, spent some time tonight and got almost everything done for a cli

Code: 
# hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 4.2: Tue Jan 26 11:23:59 PST 1999; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.34.4.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K

Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 5
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 128.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 41 tasks, 74 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 0.99


# ./bluescsi --list-files /dev/sg0a
greeting.txt 20 bytes
notes.txt 12 bytes
#

So for sure a CLI very soon, and maybe I can resurrect the GUI work i did a while ago.
 
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Hi @eric ,

if needed, I can help you in testing your application, if you can compile into a NIHS package. I do have NeXTSTEP running on a HP9000 712/100 since this late afternoon (thanks to the help of @Purdy , an older BlueSCSI firmware and some changes to bluescsi.ini according to @JdM74 ), and I hope to have it running on a SPARCStation SS20 soon.

Best, Michael
 
Have a FAT build for 68k,x86,SPARC that works on 4.2 - I'm going to guess 3.3 will need a lot different GUI/WM calls.... Obviously some cleanup to do but a lot of progress today.

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Wow, was not expecting that level of polish!

I don't know your comfort level with sharing the source code, but i'd be glad to try and help with the back-port to earlier NextStep versions.
 
eric said:
Have a FAT build for 68k,x86,SPARC that works on 4.2 - I'm going to guess 3.3 will need a lot different GUI/WM calls.... Obviously some cleanup to do but a lot of progress today.

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I can test on 3.3... on a TurboColor Slab.

...and if there is ever a Solaris SPARC version evolving, I can test that too, SPARCstation 20, Solaris 8.

-k
 
I have NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on a SPARCStation 20 and on a HP 712/100. I could test it there as well.
 
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