Transferring Files to iMac

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Transferring Files to iMac

Is there any way to transfer files from a Performa 6360 with a G3 upgrade, running OS 8.6 to an iMac SE G3 400, running OS 9.1?

The Performa has SCSI cables and the iMac, of course, has USB cables.
Any help will be appreciated.

iMac SE 400; OS 9.1, Mac OS 9.1.x, 386 MB RAM; 16 GB HD; DSL Modem

Posted on Dec 17, 2006 4:42 PM

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dreed2

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Dec 17, 2006 9:06 PM in response to Mousenstein

Email? Uploading files to a web server?

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Duane

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Dec 18, 2006 7:33 AM in response to Mousenstein

Do you have an Ethernet card in the 6360? If so, connecting the 2 via Ethernet and copying the files is the easiest.

If not, you could remove the hard drive from the 6360 and install it into an external FireWire drive enclosure. Connect that enclosure to your iMac and copy the files.

If your 6306 has a modem installed, you could connect the 2 computers modem-to-modem and transfer the files. This could be very slow.

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Mousenstein Author

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Dec 18, 2006 11:10 AM in response to Duane

Do you have an Ethernet card in the 6360? If so,
connecting the 2 via Ethernet and copying the files
is the easiest.

If not, you could remove the hard drive from the 6360
and install it into an external FireWire drive
enclosure. Connect that enclosure to your iMac and
copy the files.

If your 6306 has a modem installed, you could connect
the 2 computers modem-to-modem and transfer the
files. This could be very slow.

Thanks for the reply. The files I want to transfer are on an external SCSI Hard Drive, which has the sysyem folder on it because the internal drive is kaput. My question now is: what is a firewire enclosure?

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Duane

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Dec 18, 2006 11:41 AM in response to Mousenstein

A FireWire disk enclosure is a box that contains a hard drive controller and connects to your computer via FireWire. You install your own hard drive and you have an instant external FireWire drive.

Most of these enclosures work only with IDE/ATA drives.

You may be able to find a FireWire disk enclosure that has a SCSI disk controller.

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PT

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Dec 18, 2006 7:06 PM in response to Mousenstein

Your internal hard drive on the 6360 is an IDE bus. So one way to work around this is to pull out the old one that is broken. Then see if you can find an older small IDE drive that works that you can drop in there as a replacement. Format it, then copy everything from the external SCSI drive onto the internal drive.
Now remove the internal drive and drop it into an external enclosure that supports USB2 and/or Firewire and hook it up to your new computer (as Duane suggested earlier (I see as I reread his post)).
Patrick

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