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SCSI + USB Macs?

golfgirlgolf

golfgirlgolf

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Just wondering if there were ever any Mac models that featured both a SCSI port and USB on the same model? I had an 8500 with a USB card that could do it - but it completely died some time ago - I have the PCI card but it would be a miracle to get it working in another machine. The purpose of this is to extract musical instrument files on SCSI devices (CD-ROM, JAZ, ZIP, SyQuest etc) and move them onto USB drives to become compatible with this century's models.
 
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Anything on CD-ROM can be read by any CD or DVD drive with a USB interface. I see some on Amazon in the $20 range (search terms: usb cd drive).

You might not be able to find a drive that's only a CD-ROM reader, though. You might need to get a CD or DVD drive that also burns media. Or maybe just borrow one.
 
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joevt said:
Here's another discussion about SCSI and more modern USB Macs:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ves-that-i-used-with-my-power-macint.2309557/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/scanner-with-scsi.2341580/
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Thanks - I saw that 1st thread but they were trying to use a newer iMac - I don't mind sourcing out an older Mac if it has both SCSI & USB (as I mentioned).

The 2nd thread mentions SCSI to Firewire - something I hadn't thought of - though also very hard to find!
 
chown33 said:
Anything on CD-ROM can be read by any CD or DVD drive with a USB interface. I see some on Amazon in the $20 range (search terms: usb cd drive).

You might not be able to find a drive that's only a CD-ROM reader, though. You might need to get a CD or DVD drive that also burns media. Or maybe just borrow one.
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Now that you mention it - CD-R on an older Mac that has a SCSI port might also be a way to transfer files - just laboriously and slow - and limited in size.... but possible!
 
golfgirlgolf said:
Now that you mention it - CD-R on an older Mac that has a SCSI port might also be a way to transfer files - just laboriously and slow - and limited in size.... but possible!
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It might be possible to use the network to transfer files. It depends on what OS version is on the older computer, which is presumably providing the SCSI interface.

If you go back far enough, it's also possible the network itself could be a barrier. I don't think LocalTalk or PhoneNet interfaces are easy to find, and the earliest versions of wifi are now obsolete, and probably unsupported by any recent routers or wifi access-points.
 
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golfgirlgolf said:
Just wondering if there were ever any Mac models that featured both a SCSI port and USB on the same model? I had an 8500 with a USB card that could do it - but it completely died some time ago - I have the PCI card but it would be a miracle to get it working in another machine. The purpose of this is to extract musical instrument files on SCSI devices (CD-ROM, JAZ, ZIP, SyQuest etc) and move them onto USB drives to become compatible with this century's models.
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Try asking in the PowerPC forum.
 
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golfgirlgolf said:
YES! - I just recently heard about this one in a music forum as well. It seems to be the only Mac model to have ever offered SCSI plus USB (or FW) together without adding cards/drivers etc. True plug & play (hopefully) if one can find a good working copy.
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The "Lombard" does not have FireWire. Its successor, the "Pismo", adds FireWire... but drops SCSI.

darngooddesign said:
Yeah and all Macs with a Card-Bus enabled PC Card slot could do USB. IRC MacOS 8.6 had USB support.
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Mac OS 8.6 doesn't support USB mass storage devices OOTB though; an update is required for these. But why not use Mac OS 9.2.2, which supports USB mass storage devices OOTB?
 
Kind of confused about why a PCI-SCSI card wouldn't work in a PowerMac G3 or G4. I have a G3 that came with a PCI-SCSI card, and a G4 that did. At my old job there was a G4 PCI that had one.

Presumably these Macs used SCSI devices - otherwise why bother to drop the card into the Mac?
 
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I have a PowerPC that has SCSI, running Mac OS 8.1, that runs a high end film scanner - a Leafscan 35 - that I use ethernet to move the files from the PPC to a MacBook Pro.

>Go to TCP/IP in Control panel and set it to ethernet.
>Go to Control Panel, there is a Web Share control panel that you use to assign a folder to be web shared. Assign a folder.
>Put the Mac on your network and restart.
>Go back to the Web Share panel and it will show the IP address of the computer.
>Type in the IP address of that Mac into a web browser and you will get a list of all files in that folder.

Drag and drop the files from the web browser into a folder, USB drive, etc.
 
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