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I am trying to see real SCSI devices (eg. a HP C5638 tape streamer)
The host is a PowerMac G4 dual 1,25 GHz with two PCI SCSI controllers
The host OS (Mac OS X 10.4.11) is indeed capable of seeing my devices (eg. via System Profiler)
I am using "BasiliskII UB 20091004" (as that's what I could read was the latest and greatest for my OS/HW).
It's configured as described in this fine guide: https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ba ... _osx_setup
Using "SCSI Probe 4.3" I am only ever able to see one host (SCSI ID 0 = Quadra 900)
In the BasilikIIGUI I see a tab named SCSI, but I have not been able to find any documentation with details regarding what i can use that for!
I presume it's to map devices from the host to be virtually attached using the SCSI ID 0-6 (eg to be populated with /dev/scsiX/bla… <- bit this does not exist in OS X - I'm not sure how these devices are mappen, like /dev/disk0 etc)
Questions
- Are SCSI devices supposed to be visible "transparent" in Basilik? (this seems to not be the case)
- Can I map a SCSI device by configuring the SCSI ID <x> in the SCSI tab with something (what should that be?
- Is SCSI HW access un-supported in the Mac build of Basilikand I must use build 142 on Windows (I see many references to that build supporting SCSI, but it's on windows - I would think that the best support would be on a Mac host...
Is for me to restore two backups I made in 1996 using Retrospect (version 3 or 4) as I want to see what the younger me actually backed up
I have all the HW (SCSI controllers, PowerPC , tape streamer), but using OS X (with Retrospect 6.1) I am unable to read the contents of the tape - must likely because Retrospect 6 (from 2005) is not backward compatible with Retrospect v3 (from 1995) that I presume I used for my backup at that time…
Retrospect 6 DOES revolt the correct name of the tape, which makes me think that it must be a SW compatibility issue I am facing!