’No compatible BlueSCSI’s found’ with SD Transfer

[pipkato]

Thank you very much for creating ‘Disk Jockey’ and my apologies in advance for what may be ignorant questions about usage.

I have a vintage Macintosh Plus recently removed from long-term storage. It seems to be working well and I added a BlueSCSI Version 2 emulator which boots fine into Systems 6 and 7. I also did the 'Diode Mod' on the logic board to power the BlueSCSI from the SCSI port and it’s working fine too. I used Disk Jockey and your excellent ‘One Geek Army’ tutorial to create a .hda System 7.1 image file with a 20MB hard drive and the ROM Disk. As you can see from the attached screen grabs that seemed to work fine too.

I’m a long time Mac User but completely new to the complexities of the wonderful Macintosh Plus and file and app transfers and installations. Although I’m unclear about how to do it I understand I can use the ‘BlueSCSI SD Transfer’ app on the ROM Disk to copy files and applications to and from the BlueSCSI. But when I double-clicked on the ‘BlueSCSI SD Transfer’ app I got the error message shown in the attached screen grab - ’No compatible BlueSCSI’s found’.

Could this be because I’m using ‘BlueSCSI Version 2’ and it’s not compatible with the ‘Disk Jockey’ .hda and ROM Disk file creation? Another thing I remembered which might be a factor is that when I first tried to boot from the .hda/ROM files created by DiskJockey I used System 6.0.8 and I forgot to include the ‘bluescsi.ini’ file. So I got the Macintosh Plus question mark, but when I booted into a previous .hda SD card file the ROM Disk appeared on the Desktop. So it seems I created a ROM disk with my first failed boot but somehow the Disk Jockey SD files created the ROM disk.

Could there be a mismatch between this ROM disk and subsequent Disk Jockey .hda image/ROM creations for System 7.1 which is the System I’m currently using once I realised my mistake omitting ‘bluescsi.ini’.

And while I’m asking as a complete newbie can I ask how I might create a set of Macintosh Plus System Disks for 6.0.8 or 7.1 using Disk Jockey. I only have three 800K floppies at the moment - MacPaint, MacWrite, and another EA floppy which I might try to write three of the four System Floppy boot images to. Can I do that from Disk Jockey? And will I be able to download MacPaint and MacWrite and install them on my Disk Jockey created. 20MB file? Does that 20MB limit the space I can use on my 32GB microSD card or can I just keep adding Macintosh Plus compatible applications as I find them?

Thanks,

Roy

[erichelgeson]

Just randomly came across this question while filing a DJ feature - you are correct it only included the Beta 2 which was for BlueSCSI v2 only. I'd suggest grabbing the latest v1 firmware and latest toolbox.