You may use my SCSI <--> Firewire converter if you wish. Say the word and I'll deliver to your home.
At 3:03 PM -0500 2/6/06, Dan Crutcher wrote: >Here's an interesting little puzzle for a MacGeek: > >I have an iMac G3 (tray-load), running 10.3.9, with a badly munged >hard drive. At boot it displays the gray screen with the Apple and >hangs. Doesn't even get to the spinning sprocket. > >Booting from CD(s): > >Disk Utility goes looking for drives and never gets out of that >mode. First Aid (System 9.2), gets to "Checking Volume Extents" and >gives up. Norton Utilities (v5, System 8.6), won't boot all the way >up. Data Recovery X and Disk Warrior 3.0.3 won't boot at all (the CD >drive on this iMac is a bit flaky and will only read certain disks). > >The _only_ utility that successfully finds anything is an old >version of TechTool (3.0.5), which boots into System 9 and can find >some files on this disk that I would like to recover. > >Problem is, that requires a disk to write the files to. I have >external Firewire drives, but this version of the iMac has no >firewire ports. I have connected an Ethernet cable to the iMac and >tried to access a server on the network, but every computer on the >network I choose ((remember, I'm using Chooser in System 9.2; >Chooser does at least find all of the available computers that have >file-sharing turned on) gives a message of "server unexpectedly >disconnected" after I enter the username and password in the >connection dialog. > >I can directly connect my Powerbook and this iMac via an Ethernet >cable, but I can't get Chooser to find my Powerbook, even if I turn >file-sharing on on the Powerbook. > >How can I get this iMac to recognize a network volume -- or some >other writable device that I could attach to it-- so I can recover >these files? > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >| The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
