Do you know this for a fact? I don't believe Sheepshaver has the ability to grab the USB drivers for an external floppy drive. It's possible if you had a compatible USB floppy driver running in SheepShaver, but it would still need to be able to grab the external port. And as far as I know, it substitutes the real floppy drivers for one that reads images. Only the CD driver is functional.
Also as far as I know, there is no way at present to format an external HFS floppy disk under Snow Leopard. This is a major problem for vintage Mac enthusiasts. Theoretically a disk copy program (like Disk Copy 4.2) which runs under OS X would allow you to take disk images created in Mini vMac or Sheepshaver and write them as formatted to an external drive. This of course has been a problem for 400K & 800K Mac users since 1998 when the Superdrive went away. For Macs equipped with SCSI, the floppy drive problem could be bypassed with ZIP drives, but now, even that is no longer an option since they can no longer be written to. Of course Apple Talk is now gone too without an intermediary Mac running OS X (and depending on the age of your Mac, a second intermediary running OS 8.1-9.1). The only method currently available which works to transfer files is via terminal, which is the only method available for use with OS X and a Mac 128K & 512K without an intermediary Mac. This method allows MacTerminal to interact with Sheepshaver to manipulate and transfer files using a USB/serial adapter. http://mac128.com/transfer – ZTerm will also do it directly out of Snow Leopard using the XModem setting. This is obviously a slow method, but when dealing with 400K-1440K, it's not so bad. Hopefully someone is working on a way to add HFS back into Snow Leopard in some limited way. On Sep 10, 2:37 am, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 9/10/09, robject <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: robject <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: hfs formatting > > To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 2:08 AM > > > I think I will try that, so I would be grateful if you > > could help me > > set it up. > > One question though: will I be able to write to HFS > > diskettes from Sheepshaver? > > Should be able to. Here's the SheepShaver forum. > > http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=20 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
