Ok I just had an idea after doing a bit searching. I found a ISA SCSI controller for use in a old PC on eBay for only $10. It even has a floppy drive connector. (Trying to get a mac floppy drive working on a PC would certainly be interesting. :P )
But I've read that HFVExplorer can access physical Macintosh disks if they are connected via said SCSI controller. Any thing I should know before I think about going this route? I have an old 200Mhz Compaq Presario 4508 which has 3 ISA slots and one PCI slot. The PCI slot is currently occupied by a Eithernet adapter. This PC was collecting dust in my closet, so I pulled it out, threw a hard-drive into it and installed Windows 98. Since my router is right next to my main computer, I just ran an Eithernet cord to it and succesfully got it showing up on the network. I enabled file sharing in Windows 98 and can access the shared folders I set from my Windows 7 machine (amazing that old stuff still gets along with Win 7. : P ) I can't seem to access any shared resources on my Win7 from the Win98 machine. But that doesn't really matter. My Win7 machine can access it just fine so that works for me. So my idea is to toss in a SCSI controller into this old PC. Once I get a hard-drive for my Macintosh SE, I can first plug that drive into this controller on the PC (after I had hunted down the drivers for it. This is the only part I'm worried about. I'll probably contact the seller about this before I buy it) and HFVExplorer should see it right? I can then transfer all the stuff I have in my emulator directly to the drive from that program, then simply put the drive back into the Mac. This method looks to be the cheapest method and simplest method (getting the drivers for the SCSI card would be the only hard-part) so I could go this route instead of trying to network a mac to my PC which sounds like I could run into issues like getting the correct cables and AppleTalk setup and what not. Sorta off topic, but since the card I found has what appears to be a compatible floppy drive connector, It could be possible to format 800K Mac floppies with this thing on a PC? The MacSE I have is a SuperDrive, so it's not important I have this ability, but it would be interesting as this could be the only legit way one could write such floppies from a PC. Since before everyone has always said you had to use another classic Mac because the FDD based PC floppy drives can't handle the variable rotation speed formatted disks those 400K/800K Mac floppies used. This is a photo of the card I'm thinking of getting: http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/apachethunder/Images/scsicard.jpg Would someone happen to know where to find drivers for this? It would be great if I get that sorted out before I commit to buying it. :D -- -- ----- 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
