5 Feb
2011
5 Feb
'11
3:47 p.m.
On 2/5/2011 3:32 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on an archive project and for the past 2 days I've gotten
a Powermac 5260/100 back to life, gotten it hooked up to my network
via its CS Slot Ethernet card (make not, the cable must have ALL pins
connected, not just 1,2 & 3,6 - otherwise the cable isn't recognized
as an active link by the Apple CS card...
Got Appletalk protocol and Appleshare setup on my Win 2K3 server, now
I'm connected, all is well in the universe...
Oh, Mac has OS 8.1 installed...
So I pop in a bunch of Corvus Mac diskettes from 84-85 so I'm assuming
they are 400K ... no good, Mac won't read them, has no prob reading
800K diskettes, but won't read any of the Corvus disks... I am
hoping the disks aren't bad (really hoping since they are next to
impossible to find/replace)
So, question is....
Does anyone know if Powermac's will read older 400K mac diskettes???
curt
What software are you using to read them? I would not expect that using
the Finder to read these floppies would be successful, since they're
going to use a pre-HFS filesystem that 8.1 is probably not going to
support. I know I used a PowerMac 6100/66 a long time ago to *write*
out 400K Lisa floppies, using "Disk Dup+" and "Disk Copy" but I
don't
recall using that same machine to read 400K floppies. One would hope
that a system that can write 400K disks could also read them back, though...
Josh