I am not quite sure, but I believe the hole in the upper left corner has to be covered with scotch tape. joe
--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: From: Wolf <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Formatting floppies To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:19 AM you are correct in the IBM Format disks being plain FAT. FAT12 to be exact first thing i would do is try another floppy out of the same box. try doing a full format in Windows first. if that works, try MacDrive if it works with floppies. floppies sometimes come DOA, and you probably will find 2 or 3 bad disks in a box of 25. passing the Windows format but failing the MacDrive method, i would go into HFVExplorer and make a new image file, the size of a 1.4 meg floppy. then download a program called WinImage. open the newly made disk image from within WinImage, and then from the Disk menu, select select the floppy drive. then again from the Disk menu, select Write. accept any prompts about overwriting a formatted disk (it is detecting the FAT filesystem on the floppy) the result will (at least should) be an empty HFS formatted disk i would also try another disk from the box in the Mac SE/30 directly. again, bad floppy disks do exactly what you are describing. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:56 AM, chris knight <[email protected]> wrote: So, I have an SE/30 in excellent condition, with a 230MB drive, running 6.08. I have a USB floppy drive on my PC, and I figured out the whole vMac/HFVExplorer/MacDrive thing. However, I just bought a box of floppies (for the first time in at least 15 years!), and they will not format in either the SE/30 (initialization fails) or the USB floppy drive (using MacDrive's HFS format option). These disks do say "IBM-formatted" (which I assume means FAT), but I need HFS in order to get System 6.08 to see them (and to transfer files without losing resource forks). So, what's the solution here? I can't find any HFS-formatted disks online (and if I could, wouldn't they be at least a decade old?), and the SE/30 has no other method of file transfer (can 6.08. use CD-ROM drives?). Ethernet is not a solution, because the eBay options are both rare and over-priced. Anyway, help in transferring files would be appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
