10 Jun
2000
10 Jun
'00
10:17 p.m.
You don't format the disk before you make a copy with Diskcopy. Diskcopy
accepts what is known as an "image file". After loading the image file, you
can insert a floppy and it will make a disk copy from that image, in
whatever "format" the image was.
After starting Diskcopy, if you insert a foreign diskette (such as when I
put a LisaTest diskette into the drive), the Mac may complain that it is not
a Macintosh disk, but you can select to "mount" it anyway. In any case, you
can copy that disk, or make a copy onto it, or make a hard drive file image
from from it.
The Mac "superdrive" should handle both 800K and 1.44 diskettes (although
I've only used Diskcopy to make a copy of an image on an external 800K drive
just to be safe).
This was all done on a Mac IIsi with 16mb and running system 7.5.
John
jlewczyk(a)his.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 9:39 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: AppleTalk on the hoof
::>::The software on Apple's FTP site is all in Mac format (.HQX
or MacBin).
::>::Modern Macs have a hard time creating GCR 800K disks (if
they can at all).
::>::Apple has gone to the cheaper MFM-only drives which handle
the 1.44MB disks
::>::well.
::>
::>Think the SE/30 itself could handle it? If I downloaded the software to
::>another Mac and took the disks over to the SE/30, would it be
able to do
::>the ProDOS transfer? It is old enough :-) I don't have DD
disks here, but
::>I can get some.
::
::I *know* the SE/30 should be able to handle it. I've used mine
to do it.
I tried formatting a DD disk on it, but it only gave me the option to
format as Mac one- or two-sided. Am I missing an extension? If I am, will
the extension work on System 6?
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