Moving floppies between your Quadra and OSX should be possible if you use 1.4MB HFS formatted disks. (diskname can be found when selecting the floppy disk and then get Info in Diskutility.) As I don't have a real floppy available, I couldn't test whether I could write the image to a real floppy (using the dd command, with something like "dd if=floppyimage.name of=/dev/diskname"). I could then write/read to the floppy disk image. Basilisk opened it (with a icon labeled PC). Perhaps a workaround: I downloaded a blank 1.44Mb Dos formatted floppy disk image and added it to the Volumes list. Perhaps the size (720k) is also part of the problem. In Windows, using HFV explorer, you can only read/write to 1.44 Mb floppies. Is the small switch set so the hole in the floppy is open? (Which enables writing) The floppy disk itself has a small switch enabling/disabling write access. Is your Mac OS 7.5.3 installation capable of reading DOS formatted floppies? Do you have PC access available? It will not be able to format Mac floppies. If the USB drive does not support HFS (which I suspect it will not, as special Sony drives were used for that) you need to read/write to DOS formatted floppies. Off topic: Basilisk (build 142) for windows reads mac floppies and so does the HFV explorer software.ĭoes the floppy show up on your OSX desktop? Can you read and write to the floppy from OSX? You might be able to construct disk images from the floppies, open them in Mac OS, change what you need, make images again and use the "dd" command in OSX to copy them back to floppy. You might also try to enter the path to the mounted floppy in the Unix root in the first tab of the GUI. Can you not use the shared folder option to exchange files between the floppy and Mac OS. Looking forward to your report, it might help others. ![]() But this is speculation, as I don't have the hardware to try. ![]() If the disk appears on the desktop, you might be able to read/write to it. Save the file and try to start SheepShaver. sheepshaver_prefs file in you home folder from the command line with "open. However, if the disk mounts in OSX (does it?), you might have a chance of reading it when you add the volume to the volumes list in the Basilisk GUI.Īfter the floppy has mounted in OSX, edit the hidden. Basilisk for OSX doesn't support direct access to floppy disks.
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