Q.: SMS model OMTI 3100 bridge

--- Carlos Murillo-Sanchez &lt;cem14(a)cornell.edu&gt; wrote: My Mother had some Dataframe 20s with the OMTI 3100 MFM<->SCSI card inside. Not without looking at a picture of the card. AFAIK, it is just a standard, pre-SCSI-2 interface. You will *not* be able to issue IDENT commands against it to divine the drive geometry. You have to _know_ the heads/tracks/sectors of the MFM drive (there are lists of those out there - I was just looking up the XT2190 today and only found 47 hits with Altavista - it's a good keyword to use to find MFM drive lists) The problem is probably the third-party controller. It may or may not count on a certain set of contents of the first cylinder or two. With the right driver disk, you could reformat that drive on a more modern Mac, but you want data recovery. If you can't change the SCSI id of the Hardframe, why not change the id of the boot disk in your target Mac? -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/