On Mar 23, 2017, at 10:16 AM, NODEraser <nodera...@gmail.com<mailto:nodera...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:12 AM, paulcefo <paulc...@buffalo.edu<mailto:paulc...@buffalo.edu>> wrote: My question: does anyone have a path to get my data from these ORB 2.2GB disks to one or more DVDROM that could be mounted on the Linux machine. I appreciate that there may be differences between the file formats from the ORB disks and those readable on the Linux machine. The hardest part would probably be finding someone with a drive to read them; the rest is fairly easy. Amazingly drives seem relatively cheap and plentiful on fleabay. <http://www.ebay.com/itm/Castlewood-ORB-2-2-GB-External-Drive-ORB2SE00/232277466497?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3Dd0392cb3d19b4d45a8e71b4bc5d4d982%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D201841279514<http://www.ebay.com/itm/Castlewood-ORB-2-2-GB-External-Drive-ORB2SE00/232277466497?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=1&asc=20160908110712&meid=d0392cb3d19b4d45a8e71b4bc5d4d982&pid=100677&rk=4&rkt=6&sd=201841279514>> You’ll need an appropriate device with a SCSI interface; an old PowerPC mac would work just fine, then copy it over the network to the Linux box as files, burn to DVD on linux box. Easy. “Easy”, he says, mockingly, because he’s gone down badger holes like this before and has the scars to prove it… :-) But that would be my approach if I had to do this. I have a bunch of old Syquest 135 mb disks laying about. I think my old drives work, just don’t have a Mac with SCSI running right now to read them. About once every couple of months we get a plea on our campus-wide IT list: “Does anyone have any [insert name of long obsolete storage device] we have some [insert name of media for the long obsolete storage device]’s that we need to recover data from.” More broadly this kind of issue is an ongoing slow motion catastrophe in the world; we’re losing old data at a vastly accelerated rate compared to the rest of human history. We have stuff from the dawn of the invention of writing, 5000 years ago, that we can read…we have data tapes from 1975 that we cannot. Nothing we’ve ever created with computers come close to even the longevity of a well made book. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
