i am running Win 7 on an Atom dual core here and although i have not tried an HFS disk on the machine, i could not imagine Windows ever being able to read it. maybe i misread?
HFVExplorer and other utilities such as WinImage and emulators such as Basilisk II will always be able to read and write floppies, for as long as Windows has support built-in for the standard IBM floppy controller. which includes USB floppy drives, as they also show up as a standard floppy disk controller, which is why they get the drive letters A: or B: now if 10.7 dropped floppy support altogether or made all filesystems read-only, that would be just plain silly. it would certainly discourage me from buying a Mac. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Mac128DOTcom <[email protected]>wrote: > > I read a few articles that indicated one contributing factor was that > Iomega left out a part to save money in some drives which prevented > the read/write head from retracting too far, which is what caused the > drive itself to fail. As I recall at the time, there was a specific > set of serial numbers affected by the COD and a recall of those > drives, which makes sense. I have had the same SCSI drive since 1996 > (including routinely moving data back & forth between PCs) and never > had a problem with it nor the used USB drive I picked up at a flea > market. I've found a few places on the web that provide a step-by-step > on how to recover a drive which has failed due to this cause. > Obviously a damaged head is not recoverable. > > I have only experienced the COD on my SCSI drive resulting from one > disk, following my mounting it under OS X Disk Tools which suggested > "minor repairs", which I foolishly allowed. Sadly, something was > corrupted so badly that I have not been able to recover the data on > that disk, but the SCSI disk makes the COD as it attempts to mount the > disk repeatedly. This is easily remedied by reformatting the disk. I > suspect that corrupt data resulting from going between a Mac & PC may > have rendered a disk unreadable and produced the clicking sound which > was not actually the COD, in as much as the drive itself had not > failed, and led to this larger urban legend as people were pre- > disposed to blame COD. > > I would recommend never performing any disk maintenance under OS X, or > a PC. Instead maintain the disk in the vintage environment. I found > with one corrupt disk I needed to reformat, that neither my USB ZIP, > nor the SCSI ZIP via a PC SCSI card on my OS X PowerBook would > reformat the disk. Only the Mac Plus with the 4.2 driver would > correctly recognize and reformat the drive. But simply mounting the > disk and reading and writing data to it under OS X has never been a > problem. > > FYI, now that Snow Leopard has dropped HFS write support, the ZIP disk > will mount directly under SheepShaver and allow HFS reads AND writes. > If OS X 10.7 drops HFS completely, ZIP may be the only answer for > easily managing vintage files without an intermediary Mac – I've heard > USB floppy drives won't mount under SheepShaver (anybody?). Not sure > how Windows 7 will treat HFS abilities. I've heard Apple has only > provided read-only for Windows 7, but the legacy HFVExplorer may still > work. Then again, Windows users will most likely stick with XP and > Microsoft will be forced to provide legacy support it for years to > come under its future OS, so maybe not such a big deal for PCs. Ironic > that Microsoft currently provides more support for vintage Macs than > Apple itself. > > On Sep 25, 9:03 am, Britt Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Click of death is caused by media being torn and/or obstructions on the > > media which cause damage to the read/write head. The 'Click' is actually > the > > head retracting to its home position in an attempt to self-clean it, then > it > > tries to read again. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
