It's the last thing I need to fully restore my first computer, Mac Plus with a Jasmine DirectDrive 20.
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Anyone have Jasmine Driveware software?
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Finally had a chance to try your drivers. Thanks for sending them, but they are for older DirectDrive and InnerDrive (fixed disk) products. It seems Jasmine's removable-disk MegaDrive is newer than your drivers. The quest continues.
Victory!
I was inspired to try fiddling with the Jasmine MegaDrive again on Saturday. To my amazement, I got the drive to show up in SCSI Probe, then a little later got the first disk cartridge to mount on the desktop. About a dozen disks were successfully copied with no I/O errors. They were last used in 1994, according to the modification dates. The Jasmine driver is stored on the disks themselves, so no additional software was necessary.
I think my problems earlier were from SCSI Voodoo, as I had to switch my terminator and SCSI cable on the back of the Jasmine box.
This has been a 10 year recovery project, as I originally got these MegaDisks (they are OEM of DTC TakeTen) back in March 2009, and only got the requisite drive in November 2015.
I was inspired to try fiddling with the Jasmine MegaDrive again on Saturday. To my amazement, I got the drive to show up in SCSI Probe, then a little later got the first disk cartridge to mount on the desktop. About a dozen disks were successfully copied with no I/O errors. They were last used in 1994, according to the modification dates. The Jasmine driver is stored on the disks themselves, so no additional software was necessary.
I think my problems earlier were from SCSI Voodoo, as I had to switch my terminator and SCSI cable on the back of the Jasmine box.
This has been a 10 year recovery project, as I originally got these MegaDisks (they are OEM of DTC TakeTen) back in March 2009, and only got the requisite drive in November 2015.
I used Disk Copy 6.x on a G3 to image these disks. I don't think that it got the driver, so I'll have to make a whole-disk copy later on. I'm not sure if these disks will mount under OS X.
Iomega Zip drives and hard drives all have a software driver outside the normal volume space, so it turns out that these Jasmine MegaDisks are no different.
Who makes the mechanism? (Is it that DTC?). I’ve never heard of anything else from that era besides syquest and Bernoulli.
Yep, it's by Data Technology Corporation. Here's some more info on it:
https://www.mail-archive.com/cctalk@classiccmp.org/msg37467.html
For anyone stumbling on this thread, Jasmine DriveWare can today be found on the Garden here, more than one version in fact: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/jasmine-driveware
And if you're feeling adventurous and would like to try Jasmine's original MegaDrive software on your DTC TakeTen mechanism drive, or at least an early version of it that I was able to archive, that can be found here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/jasmine-megadrive
(Still holding out hope of finding a later version(s) that would have gone with the MegaDrive 20 and the re-made MegaDrive '10')
And if you're feeling adventurous and would like to try Jasmine's original MegaDrive software on your DTC TakeTen mechanism drive, or at least an early version of it that I was able to archive, that can be found here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/jasmine-megadrive
(Still holding out hope of finding a later version(s) that would have gone with the MegaDrive 20 and the re-made MegaDrive '10')
