Sorry, Richmond, By the way, I'm sure I saw some "Read Mac files on Windows" products "in the day". I think it was made by Farallon in conjunction with the first screen-sharing software I'd seen - Timbuktu. They were all for cross-platform compatibility .
One day, a long time ago, I put every bit of data on my zips on a hard drive. Yet I still have all the drives (4 or 5) and ALL the disks in a box somewhere. Bah. What's wrong with me? On 26 October 2011 12:01, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 10/26/2011 09:55 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> That's if the ZIP disks or drives work at all. Horrible technology, bound >> to >> fail. Remember the 'click of death' ? Everything iOmega made failed >> prematurely. >> > > Um; nothing quite like a few encouraging words; I love you too, Stephen . . > . :) > > > >> On 26 October 2011 11:27, Bob Sneidar<b...@twft.com> wrote: >> >> I take it then that the disks are formatted as HFS or HFS plus. This is >>> problematic. Windows will not recognize it. Perhaps Ubuntu will, if you >>> install the correct support files, I do not know. But I don't think that >>> just having drivers for the SCSI card will get you there. You would also >>> need Zip drivers to get it to properly recognize the zip drive, and I >>> seriously doubt they have THAT for Ubuntu. >>> >>> You may be in a catch 22 here. I would say an old mac with a SCSI port is >>> your only hope. If you boot the Mac with a zip disk in the drive and >>> connected, the system will read the drivers off the zip disk, as per the >>> SCSI specification, and away you go. I think it will have to be OS 8 or >>> OS 9 >>> though. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: >>> >>> I have a lot of useful stuff (mainly old hypercard stacks locked up on a >>>> >>> load of ZIP disks, >>> >>>> and want to get at them via my Iomega Zip drive. I have a SCSI card >>>> lying >>>> >>> around (as one does), >>> >>>> and wonder if I can get it to function if I jam it into the back of my >>>> >>> Pentium 4, 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM >>> >>>> Ubuntu machine . . . >>>> >>>> Ideas would be gratefully received. >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> >>> subscription preferences: >>> >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >>>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >>> >>> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
