[Woody]

Hello
I am "pulling" a drive from a PowerBook 540C (SCSI drive) and ideally I would like to connect it to a cable that would give me SCSI to USB.

What is the simplest way to accomplish this and would this drive which is running 7.5 mount in Leopard 10.5.5?

Many thanks

[DrunkenTech]

The drive's format will certainly mount in OS X. That's not an issue. The (few) SCSI -> USB converters that were around back in the day are probably iffy with notebook-sized drives, and the cable adapters are probably beyond rare for those that WILL work.

Your best bet would be to set up a network between the two with one of those good ol' AsanteTalk localtalk to 10bt adapters. Or you can do AAUI to 10bt. AppleTalk, though, may be a bit sketchy since I'm not sure if AFP over AppleTalk works at all with newer versions of OS X, and I don't think AFP over TCP/IP is supported on 7.5.5, even with Open Transport. I don't remember all that crap anymore.

I vote running an FTP server and using Fetch. Or doing a null modem xfer with zterm.

(Is the old unit dead? That would make things easier to figure out)

[tooki]

If someone has one, a beige G3 with a USB or FireWire card in it is ideal. Then you can mount the old drive to the G3's native (=reliable) SCSI bus and copy to a USB/FireWire drive. Or use an old Mac and burn to a single CD.