Backup my SE/30 40mb HDD to... floppy?

[mc9625]

I've recently purchased another SE/30 (with network card this time) and I would like to "move" the original 40mb HDD to the SCSI2SD card. Now it seems quite hard to find a proper 50pin 3connectors SCSI ribbon that would have allowed to install both the mechanical HDD and the SCSI2SD card. So my other only option is to use the FLOPPYEMU (again only in floppy mode I'm afraid since the SE/30 doesn't support the hdd mode). Theoretically I could prepare a bunch of empty floppy images (let's say 30) and move files from the HDD this way. But that seems quite slow to accomplish and also I'm afraid there should be files larger that 1.4mb. 

Any suggestion on how to proceed?

 

[BadGoldEagle]

I bought for the occasion a supposedly dead HD40SC on ebay. Cost me 40€. 

This allowed me to power on my SE/30 with its original HD and the "HDSDSC" (HD40SC with SCSI2SD in it ) attached to its SCSI port.

I got a really cheap deal on that 40SC. And when I realised I was a complete idiot and got myself a SCSI terminator for it, the SCSI2SD worked perfectly.

Then I simply dragged my entire hard disk to my fresh 2GB partition on the scsi2sd.

You may be not as lucky as me, as those HD20SCs, HD40SCs, HD80SCs and particularly HD160HDs are really hard to find and aren't cheap.

And on the plus side, my HD40SC came back to life after a few tries, so I can use it with its original HD... or not.

I think the floppy solution is not great, and even though you use some backup program that creates small files splittable into multiple floppies, if one floppy fails, you're screwed.

I would recommend buying a cheap Zip drive, there's one on ebay.it. Some has to confirm first that it is the SCSI version the Zip drive before you try buying it because IIRC, the drive existed in two flavours, Parallel and SCSI but I may be wrong...

You could plug the ZIP on your machine and copy your HD to a ZIP disk. Then replace your internal HD with the SCSI2SD and boot up from the ZIP, and finally copy/paste your content to the SCSI2SD.

 

[bibilit]

I would recommend buying a cheap Zip drive, there's one on ebay.it. Some has to confirm first that it is the SCSI version the Zip drive before you try buying it because IIRC, the drive existed in two flavours, Parallel and SCSI but I may be wrong..

You are correct, the common one is Parallel drive, the SCSI is the one with two switches on the back (one for ID, the other for termination) 

 

[mc9625]

I see. Maybe it could be easier try to find a ribbon scsi 50pin cable with three connectors. Not common on eBay, but it seems easier (or at lease as hard as) than find a scsi zip and start to deal with another device. 

Will it be sufficient to have the three connectors scsi 50pin cable (and possibly a molex cable with double connections)?