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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
