You don't format the disk before you make a copy with Diskcopy. Diskcopy
accepts what is known as an "image file". After loading the image file, you
can insert a floppy and it will make a disk copy from that image, in
whatever "format" the image was.
After starting Diskcopy, if you insert a foreign diskette (such as when I
put a LisaTest diskette into the drive), the Mac may complain that it is not
a Macintosh disk, but you can select to "mount" it anyway. In any case, you
can copy that disk, or make a copy onto it, or make a hard drive file image
from from it.
The Mac "superdrive" should handle both 800K and 1.44 diskettes (although
I've only used Diskcopy to make a copy of an image on an external 800K drive
just to be safe).
This was all done on a Mac IIsi with 16mb and running system 7.5.
John
jlewczyk_at_his.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 9:39 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: AppleTalk on the hoof
>
>
> ::>::The software on Apple's FTP site is all in Mac format (.HQX
> or MacBin).
> ::>::Modern Macs have a hard time creating GCR 800K disks (if
> they can at all).
> ::>::Apple has gone to the cheaper MFM-only drives which handle
> the 1.44MB disks
> ::>::well.
> ::>
> ::>Think the SE/30 itself could handle it? If I downloaded the software to
> ::>another Mac and took the disks over to the SE/30, would it be
> able to do
> ::>the ProDOS transfer? It is old enough :-) I don't have DD
> disks here, but
> ::>I can get some.
> ::
> ::I *know* the SE/30 should be able to handle it. I've used mine
> to do it.
>
> I tried formatting a DD disk on it, but it only gave me the option to
> format as Mac one- or two-sided. Am I missing an extension? If I am, will
> the extension work on System 6?
>
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