[ILUG] Accessing mac files

[Liam Bedford]

I think you might have a problem here though...
when you say it plugs into the parallel port, is this
with an adapter? Old SCSI-II (I think) used the same
port as parallel ports. There aren't (AFAIK) any software
programs to emulate SCSI over parallel, so you'll need
at the very least some kind of adapter. If you can find
an old scanner SCSI card (AVA-1505 should do it), you
most likely will be able to mount it under linux. You
will have to rebuild the kernel to include HFS support,
and the endianness might make things messy...

L.
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Liam Bedford                                            System Administrator
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Caolan McNamara" <cmc at stardivision.de>
To: "Aengus Hearne" <hearne at gofree.indigo.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Accessing mac files


>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 14.04.00, 19:18:51, "Aengus Hearne" <hearne at gofree.indigo.ie> wrote
> regarding [ILUG] Accessing mac files:
>
>
> > I have an old Mac Plus with some files on the hard drive that I'd like
to
> > transfer to my PC.  The thing has an 80Mb external SCSI hard drive that
> will
> > plug into the printer port of my PC, but is there any way I can access
it
> > through there.  Alternatively is there anyway that I can network the two
> > machines.  I'd hate to have to do things the easy way, i.e. putting it
> all
> > on disk, finding a mac with a modem, and email it to myself.
>
> > Is there any way Linux will read Mac floppy disks?
>
> If they are 1.44meg floppies the answer is yes, you can either use
> hfsutils or compile in the experimental hfs filesystem support in linux
> and you are off. Those 800k floppies on the other hand will not work,
> there is specific hardware support required to get that to work.
>
> On the external mac harddrive. I'm not sure on this one, but linux does
> support a few SCSI over parallel port drivers, so finding out the exact
> make of the external box and checking at
> http://www.torque.net/parport/parscsi.html would be a good start there,
> you'd be able to mount it with the hfs suppose anyway, Ive done it myself
> with great success with internal mac drives. If your PC has scsi suppose
> you could just take the internal mac drive and stick it on the SCSI chain
> and read it from linux.
>
> All networking solutions either tcp/ip or appletalk would work, but for a
> once off move of the mac data if theres a lot then ripping out the
> internal SCSI would be the easiest, though perhaps not feasable for you,
> and if theres a little then floppies and hfsutils would be also be
> simple.
>
> C.
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