I think you are confusing directions. There are adapters which allow you to plug in SCSI devices to a computer that a USB host controller. Those adapters work in only one direction, and do not allow you to plug in a USB device to a SCSI host.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Tyrone L. Warbasse <[email protected] > wrote: > Just curious, but why not a direct SCSI to USB adapter? Leo Laporte's > mentioned that these exist out there somewhere. > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Nate Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have similar hardware in my spare parts that you do, but haven't found >> the time to try it out, but one thing I can share is that the disk >> formatting software you choose to use is important. >> >> Apple used to get drives from Quantum, IBM etc. with either custom >> firmware and/or specific models, which they then put in hard-coded lists in >> their drive formatting software, so that most Apple drive formatting >> software would only format Apple OEM drives (the AU/X drive formatting >> software was one of the exceptions). You can use ResEdit to modify Drive >> Setup etc. to be permissive and format anything however. I keep several >> versions of modified Drive Setups in my archives (along with instructions), >> but they're not handy at the moment. You'll want to look into that if you >> want to be able to boot from compact flash in an IDE to SCSI converter. >> Either that, or use third-party disk formatting software like Anubis of FWB >> Drive Toolkit etc. >> >> - Nate >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Charlie <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I know this topic has been covered (from what I can see, possibly >>> unsuccessfully) in the past, however I am attempting this holy grail >>> of modifications for storage and noise reasons, and because my 20mb >>> Qisk is on it it's last legs. >>> >>> I have obtained over the last couple of months an new SCSI drive >>> enclosure, a SCSI to IDE converter, an IDE to CF adaptor and a 1GB CF >>> Card. >>> >>> I put this lot together, plugged it in to my Plus (well you gotta >>> try :-) booted from floppy and tried to run drive set up. No dice, No >>> supported SCSI device detected. >>> >>> So I plugged it into my G3 266 PowerMac and ran Disk Set up on that, >>> and it reported the CF Card, but said unsupported drive cannot be >>> initialised. >>> >>> I then swapped the CF card out into a USB attachment thingy and >>> plugged it into my 2006 MacPro running S/L, That could see the card >>> and allowed my to format it as Mac OS Extended (journaled). >>> >>> I then put the card back in the SCSI enclosure and went back to my G3 >>> and started that under Jaguar, It couldn't see the disk, I swapped it >>> back to the USB thingy and it the could see the drive I reformatted it >>> as HFS with OS9 drivers. >>> >>> I put it all back together in the SCSI enclosure and then rebooted the >>> G3 in 9.2.1, and the G3 could see the drive on the desktop and would >>> allow me to copy files to and from the drive and even install System 6 >>> on it, however in disk set up, it still said unsupported drive cannot >>> be initialised, even though at this point under 9.2.1 it was working >>> perfectly. >>> >>> I then plugged it back into the Plus, but as you can guess I still got >>> the No SCSI supported device present message. >>> >>> Has anyone managed to get CF working on a Plus or any old world Mac >>> for that matter? >>> >>> Many Thanks >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> -- >>> ----- >>> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs >>> group. >>> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our >>> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To leave this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs >>> >>> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >> >> >> -- >> ----- >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs >> group. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to >> [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs >> >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >> > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. 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