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| Click here to select a new forum. | | File transfer with SCSI2SD? | Posted by: agent_js03 on 2017-01-18 13:58:03
Hi all,
I recently bought a scsi2sd card and am using it in a Macintosh LC III. I was able to configure it and put in a 4GB SD card, initialize it using a patched Apple SC HD Setup utility, and install Macintosh System 7.1 on it. It worked great.
The next thing I am wondering is what is the recommended way of transferring files other than the floppy drive in the LC III? I was thinking, it is an SD card, there has to be a way of popping it into my pc and using HFV explorer or something. Here is my experience so far:
For my pc, I am using a linux laptop with HFV utils installed, and I can run HFV explorer in wine and also have a basilisk emulator set up. When I pop in the SD card, linux mounts the Macintosh HD partition ok and I can actually browse around in there. I didn't want to try just copying over the .sit files and other software because of the resource fork issues, etc. HFV explorer recognizes this partition as a DOS partition for some reason. So basically the way I tried to do this was I created an image of that partition, brought it up in Basilisk, copied over the software I wanted, then closed basilisk and rewrote the image to the sd card. I put it in my LC III and it booted, and mostly worked. There were some directories that I couldn't open (it gave me an error -50) and there were some icons (like the icon for teachtext) that were all garbled. Spooky stuff. That makes me think that either something got corrupted or the SD card was dying (I have re-initialized it quite a few times to be honest).
I could try again using a different sd card. But I am wondering if there is a quicker/easier/safer way of doing this. Also I would prefer not to have to get a scsi controller.
Thanks!
| Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2017-01-18 15:03:33
Ciderpress works good for stuff like this.
| Posted by: just.in.time on 2017-01-19 11:50:39
Toss a PDS Ethernet card in there 🙂 that's how I get files to and from my Mac SE on 7.1.
Aside from that, Zip disks are pretty reliable and relatively fast.
| Posted by: Floofies on 2017-01-19 19:07:11
Linux should be able to read/write HFS just fine if you mount the partition correctly with hfsprogs installed.
| Posted by: Yazoo55 on 2017-04-10 06:47:17
An alternative would be to use a serial cable so that you don't need to remove the sd card. I did this using Zterm on the Mac and Minicom on the Linux PC. You can use a minimal three wire serial cable successfully. As long as the files are in archive format when you transfer them, there won't be any problems with resource forks.
| Posted by: Themk on 2017-04-10 06:56:32
If you don't have a fancy network, it pays to get a null modem serial cable, to zmodem the files over. So much faster than Sneaker Net.
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