Moving HD files from a Falcon onto a ZIP drive

[Randy]

Hi all, I should be getting a Falcon any day now, and it has a 60 meg HD from which I would like to save the files and then convert the HD to a CF drive.  As the Falcon does not appear to have an ASCI drive I cannot use my US to copy the files to, so I was thinking about using a SCSI ZIP drive to move the files onto the ZIP, then I can put them onto the CF card.  Can I directly connect the ZIP to the SCSI-II port on the Falcon and have it recognized, or do I need to mount it os something else?  THanks for any help in getting the ZIP to connect to the Falcon and then getting a CF system in the Falcon, thanks!

[Zogging Hell]

Your hard drive driver software should pick up the zip drive as a hard drive (that is a hard drive mind you, if you want to swap disks you will need to reboot). I think all the driver software should work, even AHDI. The CF card reader should connect straight away, although the Falcon takes 2.5 inch hard disks so you need to make sure the reader has the right connector (or use an adaptor). I'd get a copy of Kobold and use that to copy the files to the Zip as it is much faster.

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Solution could be to set internal IDE as slave, and use CF card with it's adapter as master. Or even better if can set CF as slave, then internal as master. Then no need for ZIP drive .

[+SoulBuster]

2 hours ago, ParanoidLittleMan said:

Solution could be to set internal IDE as slave, and use CF card with it's adapter as master. Or even better if can set CF as slave, then internal as master. Then no need for ZIP drive .

This would be my choice, but it seems to me that the cable was soldered down to the board and that would need to be changed to get two ports on the cable or crimp on on. I could be wrong.

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Certainly will need some extra connector on cable or splitter to cable end. I made all it self some 10 years ago.