Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Other Options........ SCSI card/Linux Any recent Ubuntu release *should* be able to read an HFS/HFS+ filesystem. If it doesn't out of the box, all you have to do is download a tiny kernel module if the kernel doesn't support apple partition maps, and maybe the HFS filesystem utilities package. What's nice about Ubuntu is that the installation disc is a Live-CD, so you can boot from the disc and have a nice Linux Environment that's loaded into the RAM and it won't even touch your hard drive. I've done it to connect to a Mac-formatted iPod once. The question now becomes.... What sort of experience do you have toying with computers? Do you know how to write a .iso image file to disc? Do you know how to boot from a CD? If you can Boot from a Ubuntu CD you should be able to pull data off your jaz disk If this seems daunting, I'm pretty sure I have a SCSI card lying around somewhere, (I don't have a jaz drive though) but I can get data off of anything provided I have the hardware. -Forrest On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:08 PM, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote: > > I have some high-end scans (from Calypso, down in the south Bay) on a > 1GB Mac formatted Iomega Jazz disk. ?I'm *almost* certain that I long > ago copied them into my archives and that I can safely trash the disk, > but the nagging doubts are killing me. > > Is there anyone out there with a Jazz drive on a Mac? ?I'd be happy to > mail you the disk, a blank DVD/CD, a return mailer, and a boatload of > positive karma if you could toss the bits onto a more modern media. > > Failing that, I do still have a jazz drive and will go looking for > a scsi connected Mac. > > Thanks, > > g. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >