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| How do I write Macintosh CD images to physical CD's? | |
| Posted by: bengi3 on 2023-06-07 01:57:16 So I need to locate a dirty cheap CDR solution for my testings... | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-06-07 02:18:04So I need to locate a dirty cheap CDR solution for my testings...Not sure if you mean at the new or old end of the process, but... A SCSI CDRW will read CDRWs obviously, but it is even more difficult to get a non-apple CD drive to boot a CD 🤣 I just burn lots of CDRs, they're still fairly cheap, but be warned, some brands work better than others in old drives (some barely work at all), so buy small packs until you find a brand that works well. | |
| Posted by: bengi3 on 2023-06-07 07:52:00 OMG! I just bought 100 CDR for 20 euro... | |
| Posted by: Snial on 2026-03-04 03:16:30 OK, I have a related question: I'm planning to put 3x 650MB Debian .iso's onto a single 2.1GB SCSI HD (an actual SCSI HD) as a single image. There's a web page telling me how to merge the .iso's: MergeDebianIsos - Debian WikiHowever, my PowerBook 1400 is my only properly working SCSI Mac. So, the workflow is: DebianIsoDownloads -> Mac mini i5 -> CF Card -> PowerBook 1400c -> External SCSI HD. Now, with Mac OS X I could use dd to copy the .iso's block by block. I'm not sure what I should use with Mac OS 8.1. I certainly don't want a partition table getting in the way on the SCSI HD! What would you use?Macintosh Garden gives me some choices: DiskCopy 4.2 DiskCopy 6 DART ShrinkWrap 2.1 & 3.5.1 MountImage Copy II Mac ImageMaster MungeImage Pretty sure DiskCopy x.y isn't the right thing, but I'm unfamiliar with the others. I've got CDT on my PB1400 too and the CDT extension loaded, but the app just keeps crashing with a type 3 error. Any suggestions? | |
| Posted by: Snial on 2026-03-07 15:09:23 Apologies, I thought I'd bump this back up, because I think having the equivalent of dd on a classic Mac OS talking to a SCSI drive is generally useful and one of these tools might do that already. | |
| Posted by: mikes-macs on 2026-03-08 10:34:18 I don't think any of those will do what you want but the version of Toast for your Mac may do it. Also, I know that FWB HD Toolkit does block copies of SCSI HDDs but not from an ISO. | |
Posted by: Snial on 2026-03-08 15:02:03I don't think any of those will do what you want but the version of Toast for your Mac may do it.Maybe I have FWB HD Toolkit. | |
| Posted by: adespoton on 2026-03-11 13:37:22 Hmm... does FWB CD Toolkit do block copies? I haven't used it in 30 years now, so forget. I do remember it was less featured than HD Toolkit. LaCie also had a CD burning program IIRC, as did Astarte. | |
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