Just trying to format with Lido 7 now, as for SCSI to USB, I believe that they only go the other way, modern mac to legacy SCSI.
Thanks Charles Sent from my iPhone On 20 Jul 2010, at 17:39, Nate Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > 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/ > -- > ----- > 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/ > > -- > ----- > 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/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. 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