E-mu Emulator Sampler User Forum for the EIII EII EI and EIII XP

Hello everyone,
really sorry for not finding a more proper forum where to post. Feel free to delete this.
Maybe some expert has an insight about this.

I'm facing some persistent issues with my ESI2000 setup and hope someone here might have insights. Here's the situation:
 Sampler Setup:
    * ESI2000 upgraded to max RAM (128MB, OS showing 96MB (?)).
    * OS version: 3.02
    * BlueSCSI Centronics Kit (assembled by me, seems all the soldering looks ok). https://shop.onegeekarmy.eu/index.php/product/bluescsi-v2-centronics-2/ (https://shop.onegeekarmy.eu/index.php/product/bluescsi-v2-centronics-2/)
 Initial Attempts (mostly wrong from workflows I've read on EMU users groups):
    * Used Translator Free to create an EMU Standard 1024MB image on a 16GB SD card (formatted as ExFAT, Emulator-III option unchecked).
    * Sampler shows "Mounting drive 1...2...3" up to 7, spending about a minute per drive.
    * On the ESI, In Disk Utilities > Disk Info, I only see:
        * Floppy (installed).
        * Internal RAM.
        * the disk image shows up as labeled D1  (0KB capacity, "no ESI file system").
        * When I try formatting with ESI's functionality, it shows ?SCSI HW/CONNECT Err? after a minute or so.
    * Tried creating and copying in the SD card a EIII/ESI ISOs via EMXP in Wine, but EMXP gives error 1697 (?Problem opening disk in drive. Reason: 5?).
    * Also tried floppy images and - what mostly should be working, finally: CD-ROM ISOs - some downloaded from the Internet Archive - factory EMU libraries (renamed as HD4.IMG or .ISO, etc.), all resulting in "No ESI file system." and ?SCSI HW/CONNECT Err? when trying formatting.
    * I have changed SCSI Id in various formats but always with he same result.
    * BlueSCSI is terminated properly, and I?ve seen this could be an issue in forums, but this was not a solution for me.

Has anyone successfully gotten BlueSCSI working with an ESI2000? I?d love to know if there are specific SD card setups, image configurations, or troubleshooting tips I might have missed.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Best,
Alessandro


P.S:

BlueSCSI log file:

BlueSCSI gives the following report as a log file:
Platform: BlueSCSI
FW Version: 2024.10.26-rel Oct 26 2024 22:02:38
Flash chip size: 2048 kB
=== SD Card Info ===
SD card detected, FAT32 volume size: 14824 MB
SD Name: SD16G, MID: 0x41, OID: 0x34 0x32
=== Global Config ===
Config file bluescsi.ini not found, using defaults
Active configuration:
=== Finding images in / ===
== Opening /HD3.ISO for ID: 3 LUN: 0
---- WARNING: This image does not appear to be a valid Macintosh Device image. See: https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Disk-Images
---- Image ready
=== ROM Drive ===
Platform supports ROM drive up to 1692 kB
---- ROM drive image not detected
=== Configured SCSI Devices ===
* ID: 3, BlockSize: 512, Type: Fixed, Quirks: Apple, Size: 1440kB
Initialization complete!

you have the naming convention mixed up

for Hardrives its HDx.hda
for CDs its CDx.iso
(where x is the scsiid number)

rename the file on your sd card to HD3.hda, and hopefully you will be able to see it, when you select scsid 3 on the emu