Setup SCSI2SD v5.5 for setting up a classic mac

Purchase a SCSI2SD v5.5

• The CodeSrc website offers a list of official vendors
• Interial Computing is the vendor in the USA. They also sell the cards on eBay.

Download the SCSI2SD-UTIL software

• v5.5 hardware revisions

wget http://www.codesrc.com/files/scsi2sd/latest/linux/scsi2sd-util

Set permissions on the hidraw devices

cat << EOF > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hidraw-permissions.rules
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
EOF

Connect the SCSI2SD to a modern computer using a USB cable.

• I find Linux is the easiest to use with SCSI2SD configuration.

Startup SCSI2SD-UTIL

• Launch scsi2sd-util

chmod +x scsi2sd-util
./scsi2sd-util

Configure the SCSI2SD

• The SCSI2SD is able to emulate up to 4 devices.
• On a SCSI chain, ID 0 will boot as the main startup disk.
• My goal is to use the SCSI2SD v5.5 as an external drive for swapping files and peforming system setups, so I will set the first virtual drive to be ID 5.

• The Apple SC HD setup software needs to believe that the SCSI2SD is a valid Apple supported hard drive.
• Set the vendor to the string “QUANTUM”
• Set the product ID to the string “FIREBALLX”, where X is a number between 1 and 9. Set the revision to the string “1.0 “ (with a space after, for a total of 4 characters)

Initialize the SCSI2SD virtual SCSI disks

• The SCSI2SD virtual SCSI disks must have valid Apple Partition Maps
• The Apple disk utilities expect an officially supported SCSI disk.
• HD SC Setup 7.3.5 and Drive Setup 1.7.3 need to be patched to support other disk types than the ones available for the original Macs.

• For the sake of formatting the SCSI2SD v5.5, I attached the device to an LC475 that I have.
• I have two disks. My intention is to create a disk compatible with booting a 68k Mac and a disk compatible with booting a PPC Mac.

Mount the System 7.5.3 Disk Tools images and copy the contents to the new drives

• Use Disk Copy 6.3.3 to mount the disk images.
• On the Classic Mac OS, copying the System Folder to a drive is enough to make it bootable.

Connect to Classic Mac and Boot

• The scsi2sd v5.5 works perfectly. An absolutely brilliant device.