usb to scsi?

[wkearney99]

Has anyone used any scsi-to-usb gadgets to access the contents of old drives?

I've got a few SCSI drives on the shelf and I want to check what's on them before disposing of them. They've possibly got Macintosh, linux or solaris filesystems on them. I no longer keep a solaris box running but do have linux, windows and mac osx. I'm wondering what's the least-painful way to get at their contents. Using a USB connection seems like it'd be the least hassle. I'd be connecting the drives one at a time so as to avoid addressing or termination hassles. I have some old SCSI controllers handy but don't relish the idea of trying to get them working on the current setups.

So has anyone used any USB-to-scsi adapters? Any suggestions on ones to use, or avoid?

 

[drescherjm]

I would just use the old scsi card with linux since you will most likely not have to find drivers for the scsi card since they should be in the os already. You will be surprised how well linux supports old hardware. And you do not even need to install the os. Boot from a live cd with the card installed. I recommend sysrescuecd but other livecds like ubuntu may be simpler.

Also linux will support reading linux, windows and macintosh filesystems without much effort.