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Title: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: rcoonjr on March 09, 2025, 02:43:02 AM

I have had my amiga 3000 for awhile.  my hard drive died of course due to age.  I purchased a bluescsi v2.  I'm am so confused.  I  a 32gb SD card installed.  The amiga doe see the blank hard drive I made in WINUAE( made a 1gb drive) .  Now the amiga will not partition the disk in the tools.  I cannot even reinstall the OS.   I'm at a loss.  does anyone have a simular setup or tips that I can follow to get my old beast up and going.   

Thanks for anyones help.

Title: Re: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: rcoonjr on March 09, 2025, 03:48:48 AM

**update**
I have verified my image I made my my SD card in WinUAE without any issues the OS was installed and boots fine.. Bluescsi cannot seem to see it.


Resolved!  Admin can delete this post.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: Boing-ball on March 10, 2025, 08:05:49 AM

How did you resolve this? Maybe helpful for others.

For Zulu and Blue SCSI you have to partition the SD card as a FAT32 or ExFat then create a blank or blanks .hdf disk Image(s) in WinUAE.
Then rename hdf to hda. Then the Amiga and HDToolbox will see the partition(s).

Title: Re: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: kolla on March 10, 2025, 02:24:27 PM

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you have to partition the SD card as a FAT32 or ExFat then create a blank or blanks .hdf disk Image(s) in WinUAE.
Then rename hdf to hda.

Why must one use WinUAE? Doesn't (for example) this work?

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fsutil file createNew "mydisk.hda" (2GB)

Title: Re: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: Boing-ball on March 10, 2025, 11:22:42 PM

Quote from: kolla on March 10, 2025, 02:24:27 PM

Why must one use WinUAE? Doesn't (for example) this work?

Code: [Select]

fsutil file createNew "mydisk.hda" (2GB)

FYI. Here are some videos explaining it to you…….Unless you know different?

https://youtu.be/__yq7rKpCG8?si=KDKBeCgRs1ulfGgn

https://youtu.be/d0Es-THXSYI?si=ypDkwQFoNq6XFA1a

https://youtu.be/xxqs4feaCmk?si=Ibg55tOYidhrQmts

Title: Re: Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi
Post by: kolla on March 11, 2025, 10:31:53 AM

Well, none of them explain anything on the matter.

I just find it weird that WinUAE would be required to just make a file, bluescsi isn’t an amiga-only device and surely people who use it with other platforms don’t have to use WinUAE to create their disk files.


EDIT: the manual suggests that I’m correct, it shows using dd which does the same as what I suggested above.
https://bluescsi.com/docs/BlueSCSI-Images#Custom