Greg Andrzejewski wrote: > A little while ago I acquired an Apple IIe with a 40 MB Vulcan drive and > interface. Right now, the drive is filled with the computer's previous > owner's stuff. I'd like to wipe the drive and get it set up how I want, but > I have this nagging feeling to preserve the drives original contents, as I > wonder if some of the stuff might come in handy later. So, what is the best > way to backup a Vulcan? Copy everything to a SCSI Zip drive? Make images of > the 2 partitions and copy that to a zip drive? Will a 32 MB dsk image fit on > a 32 MB ProDOS partition? Hmmm......... > > I notice my beige g3 tower and an idea strikes me. The Vulcan HD is just a > regular IDE drive, right? Mac OS 9 can mount ProDOS disks. If I install the > Vulcan hard drive in my g3 tower can OS 9 mount and use it? Then on the Mac > I would be able to image it, compress it, email it, zip disk it, > etc.......... > > Thanks, > Greg > > If you have a windows pc you can hook it up and run Ciderpress by Faddensoft. and backup all the files thatway. -- si vis pacem, para bellum http://www.appleiiguy.net Apple ][ Forever!
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