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[lathoub]

Hi

I was able to copy to content from an old Mac SCSI to an SD card using the Initiator Mode.

My (newb) question: how to a mount (or copy) the content of the .hda file on the SD card on my modern Mac Sequoia 15.3.1?

Thanks

[erichelgeson]

You can use an Emulator or one of these options to extract files from an HFS image. I personally use CiderPress2 to extract files.

https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Emulators

https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Transferring-Files

[lathoub]

Thanks Eric, I'm not sure if I fully understand the content of the wiki, it looks like this is for emulating a scsi drive (or creating an SD card to move to the old scsi drive).

The closest I got to opening the .hda file (that came of the old scsi drive) was in CiderPress2, but that shows no content at all - no directories, no files.

[erichelgeson]

You can mount SCSI drives in emulators and then extract whatever files you need to your modern system. Do you know if the image actually has a file system on it? if so what it is? If you'd like me to take a look you could upload and email me the link.

[lathoub]

I'm still reading up on the topic and an entire new world has opened up to me :-)
No clue if it has a file system on it (or even where to look). I will take you up to send you the .hda file (and log file). (content on the .hda is some very old stuff from I was a student)

[lathoub]

Some additional info: the .hda was a copy of a Jaz drive, would that explain that nothing shows up in CiderPress2?

Alternative on SheepShaver:
I have the Iomega Tools installed on SheepShaver, added the .hda file in the settings, but System 7.5.3 did not recognize the .hda and wanting to format it

[erichelgeson]

After it's copied the bytes off the jaz drive it doesnt know or care that it came from a jaz drive, it's just data at that point.

[erichelgeson]

I got the image - thanks! This appears to be a FAT file system, not anything native to vintage Macintosh - I believe on a modern mac you can just rename the file extension from .hda to .img and double click it to mount it.

[lathoub]

Oh really, I feel so stupid, the Jaz drive must have been formatted in a SGI Workstation later.
Thanks so much for investigating - I learned a lot more on the topic the past days

[erichelgeson]

No worries. Learning something new and having fun is the point :) Enjoy!