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zl9600 · Sep 1, 2005, 05:05 PM

i have a stack of syquest and zip disks with data that i need on both of these disks. i have the scsi drivers for both of these, but i have only a pbg4. i have an old powermac in the basement somewhere, but short of exhuming it from it's grave and attempting to reload os9 on it, i wondered if anyone has any bright ideas on how i might get some of the data off of it using some kind of an adapter.

i tried scsi-bee a year or two ago and just got kernel panics.

tips and tricks would be met with smiles and gratitude.

thanks!

teknopimp · Sep 1, 2005, 05:19 PM

do you just need a mac running OS9? someone you know should be. if not, sorry, that just came off the top of my head. good luck

zl9600 · Sep 1, 2005, 05:29 PM

i don't know anyone running it who has scsi connections and i'd be afraid to play with their machines using the scs-bee driver or something similar. i was looking at adaptech's pci/bus card that goes from usb to scsi, but i think it's only for peripheral devices like scanners and not storage devices like a syquest drive or a zip drive. thanks for the reply though.

SSharon · Sep 1, 2005, 08:06 PM

This is far from a great solution but it will work. Check out the marketplace forum here and buy a usb based zip drive. I have seen them go for very cheap. I have seen some internal ones sold at used pc stores for $10 and if you have a case or ide adapter cable that would work as well. I know its annoying to buy a legacy drive for one use but $10 is worth an hour of hassles dealing with OS 9.

zl9600 · Sep 2, 2005, 11:49 AM

wonder if i'd be able to daisy-chain the syquest drive onto it if i used an ide adapter cable?

Scandalous Ion Cannon · Sep 2, 2005, 12:42 PM

for the zip disks go to best buy or something that has a 30 day return period. Buy a zip drive, transfer the data you need then return the drive.

tooki · Sep 2, 2005, 12:57 PM

Or just buy a used one for $30 or something, instead of unethically renting the drive from a retailer.

I'd just resurrect the old Mac and copy them to CD or something.

tooki

Macola · Sep 3, 2005, 11:55 AM

If you don't mind spending some cash, take them to a print shop and they'll transfer the data to CD for you.

blikum · Sep 3, 2005, 01:25 PM

Maybe this would help you...

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usbxchange.htm

Scandalous Ion Cannon · Sep 4, 2005, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by blikum

Maybe this would help you...

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usbxchange.htm

My old ORB drive came with one. You can probably get it for next to nothing through ebay.

CanadaRAM · 07:21 PM

buy a usb based zip drive

Originally Posted by zl9600

wonder if i'd be able to daisy-chain the syquest drive onto it if i used an ide adapter cable?

Nope.

There are no IDE Mac-compatible SyQuests, those mechanisms are SCSI. Do you know anyone with a beige G3 machine? That would do the trick. You'll also have to identify whether these are SyQuest 5.25" 44, 88, 200 Mb, 3.5" 105, EZFlyer 120 or 230. The Zips similarly could be 100 MB or 250 Mb.

If all else fails you can ship them to me and I can transfer them to CDs, there would be a couple of hours of labor cost however.