connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
Hi all :) I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... or to an external hard drive that I have for backups. The external drive has a USB connector and works nicely with my laptop... The G3 has a SCSI drive, and I *think* I need a USB to SCSI converter to connect it to either my laptop or the external drive, but I'm not sure. Currently, I have an old scanner connected to the SCSI on the G3 that has the thumbscrews on it. Any suggestions? My G3 does not have a cd burner, and I'm trying to find an easy way to move files from the G3 to the lap top (or to a PC) so I can back everything up. Hope this all makes sense - this is all new to me :) Jenn __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
On 2/4/06 2:06 PM, J Schooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... or to an external hard drive that I have for backups. The external drive has a USB connector and works nicely with my laptop... You CAN get a USB-SCSI adapter but your G3 desktop has PCI slots. It would be easier to locate a PCI USB adapter. Check out http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for a compatible card. You may or may not have to download a driver for it. Then you'll be able to connect your drive without a problem. david -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
Stardate 060204.11:06 -0800. A subspace message from J Schooster reads: I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... or to an external hard drive that I have for backups. In your shoes, I would buy a USB-and-Firewire interface card for the G3, and pop it into a spare PCI slot. They're incredibly cheap these days. Once you do that, you can turn your brand new, expensive shiny PowerBook into a very dumb, very expensive external hard drive with it's Target Mode feature. One powers on the PowerBook and holds down the T key until the screen lights up and bounces a big Firewire logo around ... you can then plug it into the G3's new FireWire port, and the HD inside the PowerBook will mount appear on your G3's desktop, just like a normal HD would. Alternatively, you can turn on File Sharing on your G3, then share the G3's whole hard drive. Assuming the ol' dear is still running OS9, click the HD's icon, go to File - Get Info - Sharing and set the privileges stuff so that it can be 'read write' for everyone, click the 'make all folders inside like this one' box, close and save the sharing info window. Next, get a normal ethernet cable and join your two machines together. On your PowerBook, open a Finder window and click the Networks icon on the left. Your G3 *should* appear in the list - open it, and you should see all the G3's files. If the G3's still running OSX, it's a little more fiddly, so get back to us :) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
On 2/4/06 11:06 AM, J Schooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... They both have ethernet connectors so you can just connect the G3 to the G4 with an ethernet cable and they should see each other when you establish a network. You may need a crossover cable (wired different than a normal ethernet cable) for this to work. I'm fairly sure the G3 needs a crossover cable and I'm also fairly certain that the G4 does not. What I don't know is if you need one to connect the two. I'd try it with a regular cable first. However, I find that cables are over priced, unless you have a friend that will make one for you. The same task can be accomplished if you purchase a 4 port switch or hub. You connect the g3 to the hub with an ethernet wire and do the same with the G4 and you are connected. If you have a external hard drive connected to the G4, set it up to share and you will be able to see it from your G3 when you network. Hubs are cheaper (around $10 on sale) but slow down with each added connection, switches cost a little more (though I got my last one for $11) and have full speed at each port. Speed depends on your switch. I know that the G3 is only 10Base-T, the slowest ethernet connection. So a Hub should do. Best regards. Geno -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
Stardate 060204.11:43 -0800. A subspace message from Geno reads: On 2/4/06 11:06 AM, J Schooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very old G3 PowerMac [and a] new 17 G4 laptop ... They both have ethernet connectors so you can just connect the G3 to the G4 with an ethernet cable and they should see each other when you establish a network. You may need a crossover cable ... No, the ethernet port in the PowerBook is auto-sense, meaning it automatically determines if it needs to adjust itself for cross-over mode. But as we've just found out, it works via their home LAN's routerbox, so all's hunky-dunky :) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
On Feb 4, 2006, at 14:51, G-Books wrote: I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... or to an external hard drive that I have for backups. The external drive has a USB connector and works nicely with my laptop... The G3 has a SCSI drive, and I *think* I need a USB to SCSI converter to connect it to either my laptop or the external drive, but I'm not sure. I've been pursuing the USB to SCSI adaptor question so I can connect my Pismo running Tiger to an assortment of older Powerbooks (SCSI disk mode). So far I have not found an adaptor that will work in OSX. This has motivated me to install OS 9.2.1 on the Pismo. Now I need to download the Belkin drivers, boot into Classic and give it a try. For your problem I agree with the USB and/or Firewire PCI card suggestion. A lot simpler than messing with the SCSI disk and you get new ports. Andrew in Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
