can't access SCSI CD Drive under OS X

[eby]

Hi all, I've been trying to access real SCSI CD drives from Basilisk II, SheepShaver and Mac-on-Mac. i've set the values "pollmedia true", "nocdrom false", etc... it simply doesn't work

does any one know which args are used ?

ps. system profiler simply reports No information found , but all of them works and i can boot from them in Qemu, strange.

[Cat_7]

Hi,

AFIAK SCSI HD/CD's were supported in the earlier (pre JIT) versions of Basilisk II. The developer has deceided to not (yet?) port the code to the newer versions of Basilisk or SheepShaver.

If you search for build 142 of BasiliskII you will find SCSI support in there.
You need the Windows ASPI drivers from Adaptec to access the drive. A utility like SCSI probe will come in handy too.

In the prefs file, scsi entries look like this:

scsi0 "QUANTUM" "ATLAS10K2-TY184L"
scsi1 <Free SCSI slot 1>
scsi2 <Free SCSI slot 2>
scsi3 <Free SCSI slot 3>
scsi4 <Free SCSI slot 4>
scsi5 <Free SCSI slot 5>
scsi6 <Free SCSI slot 6>


Best wishes,

Cat_7

[eby]

I've put those scsi things in prefs, but with the latest builds. I can't use ASPI drivers as i'm on Mac OS X.

any info about the SheepShaver version that supports SCSI ?.

Thanks.

[Cat_7]

Hi,

To my knowledge there is no sheepshaver build with scsi support. Only the said basiliskII versions.

You could try Nigel Pearsons BasiliskII version for OSX.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/

Or maybe mail him about info.

Best wishes
Cat_7

[eby]

To my knowledge there is no sheepshaver build with scsi support. Only the said basiliskII versions.

only for windows

You could try Nigel Pearsons BasiliskII version for OSX.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/pear_computers/

i've tried ver Basilisk II v1.0 port16 classic, b&w & port 17, none of them supports and the v0.8 source codes are only for windows. I'll contact Nigel regarding this. thanks.