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Posted by: John_A on 2017-09-23 01:00:18
Hi, I have a PB G4 1.67 that Im going to refurbish (new Charger + HD) and install Osx tiger + Mac OS 9. I plan to use it partly to transfer files via a usb floppy drive (wich I dont have but need to purchase) to some older 68k machines.
Any pitfalls or problems I need to be aware of?
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Posted by: sstaylor on 2017-09-23 10:12:13
The usb floppy drive will neither read nor write 800k floppies
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2017-09-24 14:30:25
It may write floppies for 1.4, but it may fail. Any success I had, I had to format the floppies as ms dos, leave the files compressed and uncompress on the mac to restore the resource fork for the file.
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Posted by: John_A on 2017-09-24 14:56:43
Ok, you mean in bin or hqx format? Sit files doesnt work after putting them on pc formatted floppies, if I remember correctly.. How about cpt?
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Posted by: rsolberg on 2017-09-24 18:12:23
I haven't had any issues formatting and writing HD (High Density/1.4/1.44MB) floppies in the versions of Mac OS you've listed with a USB floppy drive. If the drive can read and write MS-DOS formatted HD disks, it can read and write HFS (Mac OS Standard) HD disks in 9.2.2 or 10.4.x. Make sure to format the disks as HFS/Standard and not HFS+/Extended for compatibility with systems prior to Mac OS 8.
Mac OS X up to 10.5.8 includes full read, write, and format capabilities for HFS/Standard HD floppy disks.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2017-09-24 21:20:02
.sit files do work, its just drag and drop onto stuffit expander. I do it all the time. Download on my 2015 iMac, put onto zip drive (easier and faster for me) and expand on my color classic.
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