Connecting a SCSI Hard Drive to my computer........

Yeah Im currently running out of space on my SCSI hard drive and i want to put all my .all, .snd, and .aps files on my computer so that i can burn them on a cd for safekeeping.....but ill get the HD hooked up to the computer and nothing will happen, ill restart and nothing will happen. ive tried everything i think... can anyone help?[/i]

What type of Hard drive is it?
What type of computer? (Mac or PC)
What OS are you running on the computer?
Was the hard drive formated on the MPC?

the hard drive is older ("APS" is what it says on the front), bought it off ebay...
im using a PC
windows xp
i believe i did format the hd once on the mpc....

let me know if its possible to get it connected to my pc
im thinkign i might have to use dos or the system configuration menu???

You can backup to CD in Linux without damaging the MPC filesystem with built-in tools.

In Linux I would "od" the partition offsets out of the boot sector. Then "dd" the drive in appropiate sizes so that partitions would not be split. Then fix the partition offsets to re-index the drive. For example, if I had a 25 partition/5 gig drive, then each paritition would be 200 meg. I would scrape 3 partitions (600 meg at a time) into flat files. Then fix the offsets in a hex editor so that the new partitions would be A,B,C. Then burn these files to CD. Voila, MPC formated CD's.


In Windows, I am pretty sure you are SOL since once you mount the drive and can see it in the file exploder, windows tends to damage the data structure.