Archive A/UX hard drive from a IIfx

[LaPorta]

You could also always try some completely insane nonsense like I have done in the past: I've successfully hooked a SCSI to FW adapter to the external SCSI port of Macs before, and hooked the FW end to a G4 or something, and then fired up the old Mac. The entire SCSI chain of the old Mac appears on the desktop of the G4 (under OS X, mind you), with everything accessible. Crazy, yes, but it works. Then you could image it all on the G4. Not sure if you have aforementioned SCSI to FW adapter, though,

 

[demik]

Good old cat /dev/sda | netcat ?

 

[MacKilRoy]

As said on the garden page:

".cdr" is related to the device image feature IIRC

Be careful of the compatibility with MacOS 9.1 min

I believe .cdr is also .iso. Hmmmm.... I wonder if DC 6.5 can mount ISOs on the desktop?

 

[LaPorta]

I believe .cdr is also .iso. Hmmmm.... I wonder if DC 6.5 can mount ISOs on the desktop?

If not, Virtual CD/DVD Drive works well for that.

 

[slipperygrey]

BlueSCSI supports a mode where you can plug a hard drive directly into it and it'll automatically image the drive. https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode That will give you a full image with partition table intact and will allow you to bypass reading the a/ux filesystem on a Mac. I haven't tried it myself but it looks pretty straight forward. Probably the best place to ask for assistance with that is their discord, there's a link on the troubleshooting page.

FWIW piscsi can also do initiator mode and dumping of scsi drives via the “scsidump” command… if you happen to have one of those lying around. It has to be the FULLSPEC board variant, which is the most common one anyways.

 

[dramirez]

BlueSCSI supports a mode where you can plug a hard drive directly into it and it'll automatically image the drive. https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode That will give you a full image with partition table intact and will allow you to bypass reading the a/ux filesystem on a Mac. I haven't tried it myself but it looks pretty straight forward. Probably the best place to ask for assistance with that is their discord, there's a link on the troubleshooting page.

Exactly, ZuluSCSI supported it first. I used it to clone the SCSI hard drive inside my NeXT Cube.