Digital archeology: testing old Macintosh hard drives and copying data to my BlueSCSI, if possible.

(I should probably be using the BlueSCSI’s magical initator mode.)

Amazingly, the one I thought least likely to work (from a badly battery bombed Mac IIsi) is working! (somewhat)

Two out of the six I tried spun their rust and were accessible.

@RetroViator

Blue SCSI has a target mode so it can image drives without a host PC? 🤔🤷‍♂️

@simonzerafa @BlueSCSI Yep. I haven’t tried it yet, but here’s info on it.

https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

Initiator Mode

BlueSCSI v2 Documentation

@RetroViator I used Initiator Mode this past weekend to do exactly this task. Worked like a charm.