--- On Tue, 3/9/10, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also have a windows machine with a SCSI card, but I am
> reluctant to
> attach the drive to it figuring the chance of reading it is
> zero, but
> the chance of irreparably damaging the drive are way above
> zero.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions of what might work?
Nero Burning ROM can burn the contents of an HFS SCSI hard drive to a CD or
DVD. I've used that several times to backup Mac hard drives and to create
bootable CD-Rs. (Must turn off virtual memory on the Mac before connecting to
the PC to make the CD bootable.)
The Basilisk II 68K Mac emulator for Windows can access real SCSI hard drives
in HFS Standard format, though I've never tried that with an already formatted
drive.
If you can dig up the old Norton Utilities for Mac and run Disk Dr. and Speed
Disk on the drive in the old Mac, that might fix whatever it is 8.6 doesn't
like. AFAIK, Norton Utilities was the only 68k disk utilities that could work
on the volume that was booted.
What the problem may be is a 3rd party disk driver that's not compatible with
8.6. The only way I know of to replace the disk driver with Apple's is by doing
a fresh custom System or Mac OS install and checking the box to update the disk
drivers.
That won't wipe out your existing files.
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