"Market" for old macs?

[Fred Cisin]

On 30/11/05 20:15, "Julian Wolfe" <fireflyst at earthlink.net> wrote:
> However, there is a program on the PC called HFVexplorer that does write mac
> disks pretty well on a PC.  I'm not sure how it does it, but it does.

IT DOES 1.4M.
IT DOES NOT DO 800K (NOR 400K) GCR.

If you want to use it, you can use it to write a 1.4M Mac disk,
then USE A MACINTOSH with the FDHD ("super") drive to read the
1.4M and write the 800K.
OR, do a network/internet/serial transfer of the content to a Mac.

You can NOT write 400k/800k Mac GCR with a PC, unless you add different
disk writing hardware.


On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Adrian Graham wrote:
> I tried using that when I was trying to write 400k disks for my Lisa but
I've never used a Lisa with 3.5"; it must be a lot nicer than the twiggy
disks with the extra thumb hole.

> gave up and used TransMac instead. The process was:
> Format 1.4mb floppy on Mac
quite difficult if the reason for the project was to create a boot disk
for that Mac.  Some software shouldbe able to format on the PC.
> Use HFVExplorer (or transmac) to copy image file to this disk on PC
> Use appletalk to transfer said floppy from the mac that formatted it to a
> mac capable of writing 400k disks (Iici I think)
SOME Macs can do both 400K/800K AND do 1.4M (FDHD drive, and the early
FDHD control circuitry - I've heard that "recent" Macs can not do GCR)
> Create 400k disk
> Boot lisa
> Drink beer :)

You were able to wait until you were done?
I started hitting the alcohol less than halfway through.

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