Nelson, Thanks for the offer, but unfortunately there is no SCSI port on the iMac, so I don't think that would work.
Does anyone know if there is a way to use "Target" mode, or something equivalent to it, on a G3 iMac -- using the Ethernet port as the connector rather than Firewire? Or is that strictly a Firewire thing? The suggestion that I remove the hard drive and connect it to another computer is a possibility, but I'm trying to keep from having to take this thing apart. Dan > 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> > | 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>
