On Jul 27, 2004, at 02:27 am, Jason Fossella wrote:
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I've just tried writing a rawrite image
with dd to a floppy- no go. Basilisk II can't see the floppy drive, because
it's attached to the USB port, so that's also out.
How did you go about trying to write to the floppy using dd? If you a re using OS X the /dev name may not be a standard one (it's always /dev/fd0 on a Linux PC) as OS X doesn't specifically recognise it as a floppy disk drive (because it doesn't support them). If you open the 'Disk Utility' in /Applications/Utilities and put in a usable floppy (Mac or PC) it will mount and tell you what device name it is assigned to in the info panel at the bottom of the Disk Utility window.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to try to find someone with an older Mac and create
the disk on their machine. Perhaps this is an excuse to buy another vintage Mac
:)
For emergencies like this a Mac Classic is useful (not 2 things that often fall into the same sentence ;o) ) - it has System 6.0.3 in the ROM so you can boot it without a useable disk, thus you can boot it and format a disk even without a disk to boot from.
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