Mac HD file transferring

[CP5670]

I just registered here. I have a Performa 600CD that had gone strong for 17 years, but died a year ago with the same issue described here while I was loading up some game. It probably isn't worth trying to fix the machine unless it's something simple, as I can run most of the old programs in emulators these days. I would like to get some things off its 160MB hard drive though, which I think is still operational.

Does anyone know what kind of SCSI interface this drive uses and how I would go about hooking it up to a modern (Windows XP) computer? I'm guessing I can get some old SCSI PCI card off ebay and read the drive with HFV Explorer, but I'm not sure what exactly I need to buy.

 

[porter]

Count the pins on the SCSI drive. There should be 50 ( 2 x 25 ). Anything which handles 50pin SCSI should be able to read it. Even 68pin and 80pin can work with $5 adapters.

Your main problem will be decoding HFS.

 

[protocol7]

Reading HFS is no problem. You can use HFSExplorer. It only has read-only support but that's all you probably need anyway. TransMac and MacDrive give full read/write support but they're not free.

 

[CP5670]

Thanks for the help. I don't have the Mac or its drive with me right now, but I'll double check the connector when I get the drive. I see several Adaptec 50-pin SCSI cards on ebay for around $10, which are apparently supported on XP.

I use HFVExplorer to manage my HFS volumes for the emulators. It does both reading and writing, although as you say I only need reads in this case anyway.

 

[protocol7]

I use HFVExplorer here too, but only to get files in and out of hfv images for SheepShaver. I've never used it on actual HFS hard disks. But if it works, then you can stick to what you know.

 

[CP5670]

Bump

I finally got around to trying this out, but haven't had much success so far. I borrowed an Adaptec 29160N card from a friend, which has a 50-pin connector, and hooked up the Mac drive to it. The card works fine on its own but once I connect the drive, the whole system becomes extremely slow and Windows takes over 10 minutes to load. The card detects the drive and it shows up in HFV Explorer and HFSExplorer after Windows loads, but they can't read any data off it.

I'm wondering if there is some SCSI or jumper setting I haven't set properly. The drive is an IBM WDS-L160 and I found this page on it, but the jumper settings on the Mac model may be different. The Mac had the motherboard, CD drive and hard drive connected in that order, and the hard drive had a single jumper on pins 3 and 4 by default. The SCSI card has termination on its side, but I can't tell what the drive is doing with termination on its end.

Any ideas? It's not a big deal if this whole thing doesn't work out, but I thought I would check if I'm missing something simple.