Jim, I can't answer your SCSI question off hand without some research and I'm sure someone else here could or just ask Apple but, if you have lots of time and don't want to spend anymore than necessary, then you can take out your ATA drive and plug it into the extra connector on the G4's cable. The G4 is great in that the whole side flips down with just a release of the latch. So conceivably you could take the cover off the Max and just keep shuttling. For that matter, why not take the drive out of the G4 and hook it up to the SM? The new HD will be something outrageously big like 40 or 60 or more gigs and the same IDE connection. Can't say if you could boot from it (the X factor) but that's ok, I would think it would still show up on the desktop. Is the old set up all HFS+?
Jim Donnelly wrote: > I think I'm within about a month of getting myself a PowerMac G4, and > I'm beginning to think about transferring software and files from the > StarMax. > > My current set-up has a 2-gig internal Western Digital ATA drive, and > two external SCSI drives. I can't use both of these external drives > at once because I can't change the SCSI ID of either of them away > from 0, so I tend to concentrate most of my stuff on an external > Fujitsu 18-gig drive. > > I'm a retired old geezer, and I have lots of time. Speed of transfer > to the G4 is not at all a concern of mine; cost of the transfer is > where it's at. So it seems to me that the thing to do would be to > hook up this Fujitsu drive to the G4. My problem, however, is that my > SCSI education ended long ago (I have sat at a Mac keyboard every day > without exception since 1985). The last time I needed to worry about > it there were 25-pin connectors and there were 50-pin connectors, and > that's all there were. Nobody talked about Wide, or Ultra, or SCSI > with more than 50 pins. > > Apple will sell me a SCSI card for the G4, and as I read the specs it > appears to be yet another type of SCSI, a "narrow" 50-pin thing. My > Fujitsu drive has a pair of old-fashioned Centronics 50-pin ports and > nothing else. > > Will I be able to transfer stuff from this drive to the internal drive of a G4? > > Thanks. I know there are probably more efficient ways to do > it--ethernet?--but this is the way I'd prefer to do it, if it's > possible. Maybe down some lemonade as it's doing its thing. > > Jim Donnelly > Hyattsville, Maryland -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
