Cool! I'll order up one of those cheap Chinese drives and some 800K floppies off ebay and Bob's my uncle then?
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 8:27:13 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > > On 25 Aug, 2016, at 03:13, Daz Botron <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Sigh...Why hasn't some genius come up with a cheap and simple solution > to this yet?! I have a scsi cd drive. If I burn a data disk on my mini in > toast would the plus or the se/30 be able to recognize it? > > If it’s a raw ISO image containing a HFS filesystem, the SE/30 at least > should be able to cope with it. Not sure whether it’ll be able to boot > from it though. I have no idea whether Toast can make HFS ISOs > independently of the host OS. > > The SE/30 falls into the category of Macs which can deal with both 800K > and 1.4M floppies; it has a SWIM chip and probably has an FDHD drive. It > can therefore act as a bridge to your Plus. Really, the SE/30 is a Mac > IIcx with the NuBus slots lopped off and a CRT installed instead. > > There is also one thing your Blue & White G3 is good for: acting as a > bridge to your SE/30 (just not directly to your Plus). With a USB floppy > drive, it’ll be able to write HFS-formatted 1.4M disks. Since it has > built-in Ethernet and runs relatively recent versions of MacOS, you should > be able to download files directly to it, instead of having to bridge yet > again through your Mini. > > That should give you some relief, I think… > > - Jonathan Morton > > -- -- ----- 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] To leave 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/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
