MrFahrenheit
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Thanks for all of the info everyone.
I realized I had an Adaptec 2930cu Mac PCI SCSI card in my bin, and I tossed it into my G4. A few kernel panics and a quick driver installation later, my SCSI Jaz drive was working just fine on my G4. Hurray!! Of course, being obsessed with having redundant hardware this one is a new spare Jaz I had in a box. So I now have a way of moving stuff from my NAS and downloads over to my old vintage hardware.
Now that I got the Jaz working, I thought again about MO. I searched eBay and found a Fujitsu 1.3GB 3.5” external SCSI MO drive, with 4 erased disks, for $80. Looking at the data sheet, it’s backwards compatible with the 230mb drive I already am waiting for. So now I can write some 230mb MO disks on my G4 and read them on the MO drive I’ll have hooked up to my vintage Macs at my test table. I went a step further and found a brand new 2.3GB 3.5” SCSI drive and bought it as well.
So far, with regards to vintage storage, I’ll be utilizing:
- SCSI Zip 100
- SCSI Jaz 1GB
- USB Zip 100
- SCSI Olympus 230mb MO 3.5”
- SCSI Fujitsu 1.3GB MO 3.5”
- SCSI Fujitsu 2.3GB MO 3.5”
- Apple SuperDrive on G4
- SCSI External Yamaha 6416 CDRW
- Apple 600e CDROM
The easiest would be to burn CDs and read them on the 600e. However burning CDs on the SuperDrive with brand new 650mb and 700mb media has mixed results even when burning at 1x, 2x, and 4x. Some of the media is marked to not be as reliable unless burned at 16x or higher. Interesting, I thought slower was better.
I did also get a spindle of Verbatim 4x CDRW but they aren’t readable in a lot of older CDROM drives.
If only someone could come up with a way to interface the floppy port or SCSI port with a SD card this would all be so simple to move stuff around. <grin>
I make it hard on myself for a reason. I’m not masochistic or anything, I actually get frustrated sometimes. But it’s the act of using vintage hardware together with vintage storage that is so appealing to me. I have one machine with a SCSI2SD in it. It came to me from the estate of Adam R, of the Vintage Mac Museum. It’s nice, but it’s silent. I may as well be using a raspberry pi emulator inside an original Mac case that’s almost how it feels. I enjoy the touch, the sound, the and sometimes the problems.
Being able to troubleshoot a vintage problem and solve it makes me feel like I accomplish something. I read about people’s issues with SCSI2SD not working and it would be disappointing and not enjoyable to me to try and fix.
There’s nothing like firing up a Mac Quadra 650, inserting a Jaz cartridge with stuff on it to backup, firing up Toast CDROM Pro 3.5, and inserting a Verbatim AZO blue CDR, and burning that Jaz disk to a CDR at 4x speed. Sure, that’s 20 minutes I’ve wasted. But it’s so 1996.
I realized I had an Adaptec 2930cu Mac PCI SCSI card in my bin, and I tossed it into my G4. A few kernel panics and a quick driver installation later, my SCSI Jaz drive was working just fine on my G4. Hurray!! Of course, being obsessed with having redundant hardware this one is a new spare Jaz I had in a box. So I now have a way of moving stuff from my NAS and downloads over to my old vintage hardware.
Now that I got the Jaz working, I thought again about MO. I searched eBay and found a Fujitsu 1.3GB 3.5” external SCSI MO drive, with 4 erased disks, for $80. Looking at the data sheet, it’s backwards compatible with the 230mb drive I already am waiting for. So now I can write some 230mb MO disks on my G4 and read them on the MO drive I’ll have hooked up to my vintage Macs at my test table. I went a step further and found a brand new 2.3GB 3.5” SCSI drive and bought it as well.
So far, with regards to vintage storage, I’ll be utilizing:
- SCSI Zip 100
- SCSI Jaz 1GB
- USB Zip 100
- SCSI Olympus 230mb MO 3.5”
- SCSI Fujitsu 1.3GB MO 3.5”
- SCSI Fujitsu 2.3GB MO 3.5”
- Apple SuperDrive on G4
- SCSI External Yamaha 6416 CDRW
- Apple 600e CDROM
The easiest would be to burn CDs and read them on the 600e. However burning CDs on the SuperDrive with brand new 650mb and 700mb media has mixed results even when burning at 1x, 2x, and 4x. Some of the media is marked to not be as reliable unless burned at 16x or higher. Interesting, I thought slower was better.
I did also get a spindle of Verbatim 4x CDRW but they aren’t readable in a lot of older CDROM drives.
If only someone could come up with a way to interface the floppy port or SCSI port with a SD card this would all be so simple to move stuff around. <grin>
I make it hard on myself for a reason. I’m not masochistic or anything, I actually get frustrated sometimes. But it’s the act of using vintage hardware together with vintage storage that is so appealing to me. I have one machine with a SCSI2SD in it. It came to me from the estate of Adam R, of the Vintage Mac Museum. It’s nice, but it’s silent. I may as well be using a raspberry pi emulator inside an original Mac case that’s almost how it feels. I enjoy the touch, the sound, the and sometimes the problems.
Being able to troubleshoot a vintage problem and solve it makes me feel like I accomplish something. I read about people’s issues with SCSI2SD not working and it would be disappointing and not enjoyable to me to try and fix.
There’s nothing like firing up a Mac Quadra 650, inserting a Jaz cartridge with stuff on it to backup, firing up Toast CDROM Pro 3.5, and inserting a Verbatim AZO blue CDR, and burning that Jaz disk to a CDR at 4x speed. Sure, that’s 20 minutes I’ve wasted. But it’s so 1996.