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 <darebe...@gmail.com <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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
