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

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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
> 
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