Sorry, bit of a neophyte at this. I don't expect to be doing this regularly; just trying to pull the data from this drive, one-and-done. As such, I'm not equipped with such a Linux box, nor the tools and knowledge most hobbyists here probably expect. Willing to learn, though!
That being the case, what's your recommendation on how best to proceed in a case like this? This drive is from 1993; I seriously doubt it has more than 1GB. Is there a particular tool or technique you suggest? I can always order something else off Amazon.
Thanks for the help!
Here's how I'd manage this, granted, I might have different resources....
One way I've been trying to access old HDDs using USB adpaters is setting up a Windows 2000 SP4 virtual machine in VirtualBOX and then installing the Host Extensions ISO - then after that, if in Linux, you need to add your user to the vboxusers group to allow access to USB devices. Then I just attach the USB device with the drive on it to the host, and most of the time, I've had good luck with older IDE drives on my USB 2.0 adapter pulling SOME of them up. I'm not sure about something as old as a Maxtor 7120AT (Which is the first HDD I ever owned - Flight 386 SX - used it 20 years before it died)
Another method is if you can find a computer, even a fairly recent one with a IDE interface, you may be able to get the drive to appear on that system, using a Linux Live Boot USB to connect to it and drag and drop the data off of it.
The one Caveat you might encounter though - and this is what I've encountered recently with my BSi NanTAn FMA3500C laptop - is if someone is using Doublespace/DriveSpace/Stacker on that drive then you may have to boot FROM that hard disk itself to access the data. Hard Disk Compression was a semi-popular thing in the early 1990's on low capacity hard disks like this, and that could cause some issues. I know my Connor CP203whateveritis from the FMA3500C won't come up in either Vbox or Linux, or Windows (any version) because of the Stacker HDD Compression.