When my parents decided to throw out their Performa (about 14 years old) I disassembled it so they only threw away the power supply, case, and CRT. The dormant parts still remain with me. With Basilisk II humming happily (well, mostly), I want to clone the hard drive onto BasiliskII so my Performa will always be with me. Except how do I actually manage to clone the drive? Do I have to invest in a complicated SCSI enclosure/SCSI-to-USB cable to make it work?
Thanks
TJ
Fire up Disk Copy (and Stuffit), make an .img.sit. Can you plug the drive into an OS 9 Mac that has a CD burner or Ethernet port?
I dont think that a wire scsi/usb can do that job...
For best results you really need some old machine.
I used to clone my olds 100Mb HD (from a LC lll) & a 1.2 Gb (Performa 6320Cd) using the inner bay of a G3 266. Then i make the .IMG and burn them in a Cd-Rom. The result was a pair of booteables CD Roms with System 7.1 (LClll) and MacOS8.1 (Performa) on it.
Toast Titanium 5.1.3 can do this part very fast and clean.
Depends on your current Mac selection. A SCSI PCI (not PCI-E, nor PCI-X) SCSI card, usable in any G3 or G4 tower, can be pennies on eBay and the like. Don't pay more than a few dollars / pounds. Remember that all the early G4 towers came with a PCI SCSI card installed, so you can get a whole Mac with one for under $10 / £10. I got one with a working B&W G3 for £0.99.
Hey Joe,
as recently announced at Emaculation, I am willing and able to make an image of your drive, if you can't make it otherwise.
I still own old Mac hardware with SCSI host adapters, so it can be easily done.
Best wishes!
You're best off with an OS X Mac or Linux box with a SCSI card, the correct cabling, and GNU ddrescue.
Use GNU ddrescue to do the cloning. Make sure you clone the device, not just the partition.
The command would look like this: ddrescue -r 10 /dev/sdb harddisk1.img harddisk1.log . If you interrupt ddrescue, you can restart it. -r 10 means it should try reading bad sectors 10 times each.
This is by far the best way. It may not work for really really old SCSI drives though (early Mac SE era and older).
