Avid Media Drives - SCSI to USB, Plus Drive Servicing

[Mix Design]

Is anyone aware as to whether the 'Avid / Digidesign Media Drive' (SCSI) will work using an 'Iomega Jaz Traveller' - (SCSI to Parallel converter), connected to a USB port via an appropriate adapter cable.

Obviously the speed wont be up to much, but for the purpose of file recovery, does anyone know if this would be successful, without damaging the ports on either the host machine (iMac) or the media drive, also I'd prefer not to pay $100 or so, on eBay for a SCSI to USB adapter.

In addition, does anyone know of a service manual, so I can figure out where all the casing screws are located, enabling me to open the unit for a needed clean. I dont want to loosen any unnecessary screw's damaging internal parts, or alternativly miss any and damage the casing.

Thank you any views appreciated...

[John_Toolbox]

I don't think that combination of adaptor cables will work, but if you have them, you could try it. I seem to remember seeing a very expensive firewire to scsi adaptor a few years ago, but for what it cost, you could just buy an old atto card and g4 on ebay and save a few hundred bucks. IMHO, The best way to recover files from scsi drives is from a computer that is old enough to support scsi.