Lucky you. What I did when I got my G4 was get a Initio Miles pci scsi card (50pin), recommended as best (+bootable!) card by MacWorld around the time scsi was abandoned by apple. See MacWorld's reviews and http://www.initio.com/ (I had to scan etc. from scsi then so I needed scsi) Next temporarily placed my 50pin scsi drives into the G4 and just copied the entire disks to the G4 drive. No cables beyond the flat internal 50 pin scsi's nor terminations nor housings to worry about and very fast. I later used one 9G Atlas scsi for Scratch and a separate partition for 2nd system with Explorer so my System HD was not contaminated by MSoft.
I do not have any idea what you want to do with the G4 but whatever drive comes with your G4, get a second exactly similar one and go (internal) RAID with double the space and gain in speed. Do this before anything else. Your external scsi have external 25 pin jacks and so does the card so the old time scsi cable will do if you want to go external. Keeping it simple. regards, Robert >On or about July 10, I expect to come into an extra 45-50 thousand >bucks, and I've earmarked anywhere up to $5K for a PowerMac G4. I've >decided that it will need a SCSI card, and Apple is eager to sell me >one, but all my SCSI knowledge is archaic, so here's my question: > >This StarMax has a 2-gigabyte internal ATA drive (nearly full), and I >also have about 17 gig free space available on two external SCSI >drives. How do I transfer any or all of this stuff to a G4 machine? >In theory, I suppose I could first empty out the internal drive onto >one of the externals. Then what? Both of my external drives use >antique 50-pin cables. I'm pretty sure that in a cardboard box on the >floor I have a couple of 50-to-25-pin cables, but I don't understand >anything at all about their usefulness for handling the various kinds >of SCSI. In other words, will I need a special sort of cable to >transfer stuff from an old 50-pin SCSI drive to whichever variety of >SCSI I'm likely to find on the card in a G4 machine? Will that >require going through contortions, like maybe chaining cables >together? Will I need some sort of separate little gizmo to convert >formats? > >All I know anything about is SCSI and SCSI II, nothing newer than >that. No ultras, in other words, no 68s. > >Thanks very much. > >Jim Donnelly >Hyattsville, Maryland > >-- >StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ > / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > >StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> >Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > >Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! ><http://www.applelinks.com> -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
