Hi everyone! i am quite new here and need some help about bluescsi and/or Bancho

[breakz80]

Hi,Guys.

i am quite new here but nit new to retrogames..in general.Lately i bought an x68000 XVI ..and i would like to buy a blue scsiV2.I am  reading and reading everywhere but i do not get what to do so.. i try asking here for some help(please😊):

- do someone knows what do innerd to to do with the termination and where (inside the X68000 mobo,i think🤔)

- For what the Blue Scsi guy told me the working version with the XVi,id the desktop one (internal installation right?)

- Which cable i need to connect the Bluscsi V2 desktop to the mobo?

- which kind of raspberry picondo i need to provide to work with bluescsi?
(considering that i am in Jaoan and buying it from Yahoo Jp)


- about the X68000 XVI: the external scsi connector is not a uusual scsi connector that i can connect with other scsi devices (do i need am adapter?)

- and what about the XVI internal scsi connector?..which kinf of adapter is required?

-About HencouBanchou:

https://classicpc.org/%e5%a4%89%e6%8f%9b%e7%95%aa%e9%95%b7v4-%e5%a4%96%e4%bb%98%e3%83%a2%e3%83%87%e3%83%ab/

any particukar advice and/or weak/good points  compared to BlueScsi?


Sorry if they seem noob questions...but i am  an almost total noob about yhis great computer..so a "spiritual guide could ne apreciated😊)

rhanks in advance guys!

[BlackVega]

In my experience I don't recommend BlueSCSI. I assembled 2 units myself and they worked at first but after a while they started developing read errors until they stopped working altogether... I have no idea what can be wrong here. In case you want to install BlueSCSI internally or Henkan Banchou or any other modern SCSI solution then you need to build or buy an internal ribbon cable (in your case look at 26pin to 50pin SCSI cable):
https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:hard_drive_on_sasi_machine


You don't install terminators internally. Terminators aren't really needed if you connect only 1 SASI/SCSI device to your system. Also modern SCSI solutions usually have a jumper or other option to activate termination on them so this is not something you should worry about. If you want to connect any of these SCSI devices externally then you also need to buy an external cable for it. What sort of cable depends on what version of the product you buy (but external SASI/SCSI cables usually don't support internal 50pin ribbon cable, this one needs to be connected inside the system).

[aotta]

@BlackVega are you talking about bluescsi 1 or 2? because i had some issue with the first, but i use now bluescsi2 in my three X68 and since the fw added support for X68K (i did that patch to the prj, probably that's why i'm so proud LOL ) the bluescsiII rest the best and cheaper solution IMHO

[BlackVega]

Scratch that what I said about BlueSCSIv2 being bad. I got to the root cause of the issue why my BlueSCSI PCBs were failing- I noticed the resistances in fuses were ridiculously high, somewhere around at least 60-100ohms while it should be flat or close to 0. I replaced the fuses and BlueSCSI is working again! For now...... Maybe I used fuses that are too weak? Oops...

This is what I used'
https://www.digikey.pl/en/products/detail/bourns-inc/MF-PSML075-12-2/10257732

I thought 12V 750mA should be enough. Or maybe there is something else going on to make my BlueSCSI fail after about a month... I hope the rest of parts I bought are correct... I also have fixed 2.85V regulators now and I installed them now as opposed to adjustable ones. Let's see how my BlueSCSI does this time...