29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
9:29 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: RE: "Market" for old macs?
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, James Fogg wrote:
I don't think it can easily be done either. Another odd thing is that the
68K machines equipped with superdrives can reliably make 800K disks from
images, my perfectly good powermacs have problems doing this.
Do you have a PC? Apple does (or did) offer the
OS's on their website,
and there were instructions about how to use various PC based programs
to write them in a Mac 800K format from a PC drive.
Somewhere I have the images and software because I've had to do this
once.
The 1.4M Mac format can easily be done by a PC with special software.
I'd LOVE to hear from anybody who is successfully formatting and writing
GCR with a PC (without adding in a "flux transition" based additional disk
controller (such as Catweasel or COPYII Option Board)
It is "impossible". (VERY difficult)