emusonacid! legacy

Has anyone experimented with this yet to see if we could set up either a WinXP or even a Win98 VM under Mac OSX so we could use USB-SCSI devices under a VM ?

It can be done in Linux and Akai Samplers it appears (at least generically):

http://mememiner.com/archives/000089.html

Ok, finally catching up on the long list of "projects" whilst I have some time off.

First, I have been exploring VMWare Fusion on the Mac OS X/Intel Macbook to determine if SCSI is possible to allow old SCSI sampler apps to run on a Mac and talk to the Emu.

So far, I have managed to get a Microtech USB SCSI interface to talk to VMWare ok, and also recognize a removable drive.

Next step after the next round of post Christmas drinking and leftovers is to get it to talk to a sampler.

So far it looks promising.....anyone else have this configuration ?

M

So far the Microtech USB-SCSI interface seems to be a load of pants as far as I can tell with some hacking around on OS X and VMWare.

Problems:

1. Seems to only allow devices to have a SCSI ID of Zero
2. Mounts itself as a Mass Storage Device - not a true SCSI device - so useless for anything other than pretending to make a hard drive a "USB Drive"
3. Inflexible termination architecture -needs term power

Will keep on hacking, but I doubt I can do anything on VMware Fusion with this.

The Ratoc devices might be better, but they still command a high price vs the Microtech kit which I picked up for $10 and thus could risk it if it didn't work.

I haven't tried this yet, but can't you just fit an ATTO SCSI card in the mac? And why do you need to run windows? Is there no mac s/w left that down sample dumps anymore? Damn, I might have to stick with a G4 for a while. At least I can use ReCycle and Peak I guess.

My Macbook Pro and iMac can't take an ATTO scsi card.....plus software support for SCSI in OS X Snow is pretty much gone.

anyhow, using FAT32 and USB IDE removable drives/CF drives work well for transferring basic wave.

I'd just like to be able to use recycle for bulk dumps on the macbook.

Cheers
M

Yes, I'd like to have this working too, but am just at the initial investigating stage. This thread's quite useful for more general os x scsi adapter advice:

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/panther_ ... pters.html

I have one of the Belkin Firewire/SCSI adapters mentioned in the thread here, so I will try it now and report back..