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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R
- CPU
- Intel Core i7
- Graphics
- HD 5850
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
(I did several searches and didn't find what I was looking for, so apologies if this is an oft-asked/answered question and I missed it. Skip down to the TL;DR to avoid the potentially boring details.)
So, I have several Iomega Zip 100 disks with old Mac files (Circa 1993) on them that I would like to get copied onto my NAS for long-term archiving, and for use either via emulation on modern Macs/PCs, or maybe even on this potential future Hackintosh if the performance and maintenance aren't too bad. This is my ultimate goal, getting these files on my NAS. (I've setup the NAS as an AFS share, and I've already copied several hundred floppy discs to it, so I know that part works.) I have the original SCSI Iomega zip drive that I used to write these files to disk, but I can't get it to work on the four classic SCSI Macintoshes that I have at my disposal. I suspect this drive is dead, although it does power up.
I also have an ATAPI Zip drive, and last night I installed it onto an old machine (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mobo and Gigabyte HD 5850 GPU) that I upgraded to Windows 10 last month, and I found a Windows program that can read Mac HFS disks, and I was thinking I had it made. I started copying the zip disks to my NAS, but the program copies the files temporarily to the Windows HD before putting them on the network, so there went all my resource forks, and many of the files are useless. (I verified this last night using Basilisk II.)
So I thought, what if I turn this Windows PC into a Hackintosh, and remove Windows from the equation, and copy the files that way?
So this is my question (TL;DR): is it reasonable to expect that I can get an ATAPI Zip drive to work and copy Mac files using the GA-X58A-UD3R mobo?
This post by vijayp gives me hope. I was surprised when searches for ATAPI Zip Drive didn't turn up much info here. I guess this is more a edge case than I thought.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
So, I have several Iomega Zip 100 disks with old Mac files (Circa 1993) on them that I would like to get copied onto my NAS for long-term archiving, and for use either via emulation on modern Macs/PCs, or maybe even on this potential future Hackintosh if the performance and maintenance aren't too bad. This is my ultimate goal, getting these files on my NAS. (I've setup the NAS as an AFS share, and I've already copied several hundred floppy discs to it, so I know that part works.) I have the original SCSI Iomega zip drive that I used to write these files to disk, but I can't get it to work on the four classic SCSI Macintoshes that I have at my disposal. I suspect this drive is dead, although it does power up.
I also have an ATAPI Zip drive, and last night I installed it onto an old machine (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mobo and Gigabyte HD 5850 GPU) that I upgraded to Windows 10 last month, and I found a Windows program that can read Mac HFS disks, and I was thinking I had it made. I started copying the zip disks to my NAS, but the program copies the files temporarily to the Windows HD before putting them on the network, so there went all my resource forks, and many of the files are useless. (I verified this last night using Basilisk II.)
So I thought, what if I turn this Windows PC into a Hackintosh, and remove Windows from the equation, and copy the files that way?
So this is my question (TL;DR): is it reasonable to expect that I can get an ATAPI Zip drive to work and copy Mac files using the GA-X58A-UD3R mobo?
This post by vijayp gives me hope. I was surprised when searches for ATAPI Zip Drive didn't turn up much info here. I guess this is more a edge case than I thought.
Anyway, thanks for reading.