I have a Quantum Q 280 SCSI hard drive out of an original Mac II that I want to get the files from. I eventually want to get the files to my PowerBook G4 and as an intermediary machine I picked up a beige G3.
I selected this beige G3 because it has SCSI, ethernet, Safari and USB so I have lots of ways to get the files off of that machine if I can mount my old Mac II drive on it. The drive boots the Mac II so I know it is good. The video is very flaky on the Mac II so it is virtually unusable. I connected the drive to the G3 and can't get it to mount on the desktop under 8.6. (The machine also boots 9.2.2 and 10.2 on another drive, it didn't mount there either.) The 8.6 instance has a copy of FWB Software's Hard Disk Toolkit-PE that sees the drive but will not mount it. I click the button to mount the drive and it does not mount. I click on the drive to see the partitions and get a dialog box that says, "The device at SCSI:0 ID5 does not contain a valid partition map. You will not be able to use HDT's partitioning features with this drive until it has been reformatted and volumes have been created." I click on the info button and get a screen full of drive data so it looks like that part is all OK. It occurred to me I might need a driver for it and searched around with no luck. Could it be that 8.6 can't read an HFS drive? I also have a windows machine with a SCSI card, but I am reluctant to attach the drive to it figuring the chance of reading it is zero, but the chance of irreparably damaging the drive are way above zero. Can anyone offer any suggestions of what might work? -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
