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Post #16 by Mike Richardson
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateThu, 17 Sep 2009 - 22:00
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/creating-hfs-disks-and-images-under-snow-leopard-10-6.18580/
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In theory at least you might be able to use this thing to mount a SCSI drive the same way, assuming it works with 10.6. (It does work with 10.5)
I thought about that too, but those little buggers were hard to come by at the time and expensive ($109 in 2009!?), nor widely adopted or supported. (...)
$109 actually seems incredibly reasonable for an obscure tech product that by definition isn't going to sell in large quantities yet satisfies a real need, but I suppose it depends on your point of view. In 1986 a "Digi-Mouse" for a Tandy 1000 computer was $99 for the mouse and another $99 for the controller board. (The Radio Shack catalog archive was the first place I could think of to find a price list from the early mac era.)

I've seen FireWire to SCSI adapters far cheaper on the used market.

The one I have works great. I use it to zero out hard drives with my eMac at the warehouse, in conjunction with the shell of an old external SCSI CD-ROM that died. You don't have to reboot after every hard drive (just unplug the adapter from FireWire, and it's off), so I can wipe a lot faster.

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