On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Mullin9 wrote:
I own a iMac G4, and a beige Mac,
is there an external HDD casing, with Firewire and DB-25 SCSI,
so I hook it up to a DB25 on my Powermac 5300, and transfer my file to
an iMac, using the FW 400
No, there's no case with Firewire and SCSI. Firewire cases all use
PATA or SATA HDs, while SCSI cases all use SCSI HDs. They are
incompatible.
You can use file sharing over any ethernet network to move files
between these various Macs. This could be a tiny bit tricky if the
files are large, but should be easily possible. The highest OS for the
5300 is OS 9.1, but you should be able to file share between 9.1 and
OS X on the these. You could also attach the files to emails and mail
them to yourself to transfer them.
You can get a Firewire 400 PCI card for Beige if you need
compatibility between the iMac and Beige. You can even boot the Beige
from external FW400 HDs using XPostFacto's Helper Disk boot option,
which also eliminates three big problems of the Beige: 1) the 1st 8 GB
partition for OS X in not required for FW HDs 2) the 128 GB HD limit
does not apply to FW HDs 3) FW400 bus is almost twice as fast as the
internal Apple ATA33 bus, and a cheaper alternative to ATA133 PCI
cards that can only run at ATA66 speed in the Beige.
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