in a Terminal, "dd if=diskimage.img of=floppydevice" diskimage.img is the uncompressed image file, floppydevice is the actual device that appears in /dev - i don't remember what it comes up as on a Macintosh. be sure to dismount the floppy before attempting something like this upon remount, based on what i read here and my knoledge of disk images and floppies, the written disk should come up as a read-only HFS volume - so you can't directly add files, but you can at least move stuff from an emulator to a real floppy doing the reverse, that is, "dd if=floppy device of=diskimage" would get you a usable disk image from a real floppy please note that i am not a daily Mac user - but technically speaking, i don't see why this shouldn't work on Snow Leopard On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mac128DOTcom <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
