Gil
Well-known member
Hey guys. It's been a while since I've done anything with vintage Macs, but I need some advice regarding linux and hardware.
I have 2 hard disk drives from an SGI/IRIX machine that I want to image/clone. The drives are ultra-wide SCSI with an SCA connector. The only logical way to do this, that I can think of, is to put the drives in another computer with a SCSI interface. Since Ubuntu Linux can read the IRIX file system, I assume pop the drives in my Power Mac G4 connected via SCSI, boot into UbuntuPPC Mac, and image the drives. But I need a SCSI controller card.
I've been looking on eBay and it looks like the Adaptec 2940U2B is a good choice. This is specifically a Mac card. I am wondering if I would need the Mac or PC version when using Ubuntu linux? I'm not very familiar with this kind of stuff.
Thank you very much in advance!
-Gil
P.S. if anyone has any experience with imaging or cloning IRIX drives, I'd love some tips!
I have 2 hard disk drives from an SGI/IRIX machine that I want to image/clone. The drives are ultra-wide SCSI with an SCA connector. The only logical way to do this, that I can think of, is to put the drives in another computer with a SCSI interface. Since Ubuntu Linux can read the IRIX file system, I assume pop the drives in my Power Mac G4 connected via SCSI, boot into UbuntuPPC Mac, and image the drives. But I need a SCSI controller card.
I've been looking on eBay and it looks like the Adaptec 2940U2B is a good choice. This is specifically a Mac card. I am wondering if I would need the Mac or PC version when using Ubuntu linux? I'm not very familiar with this kind of stuff.
Thank you very much in advance!
-Gil
P.S. if anyone has any experience with imaging or cloning IRIX drives, I'd love some tips!