Mac 400k floppy drive alignment?

Ray Arachelian ray at arachelian.com
Fri Jan 9 15:44:33 CST 2009


Rich Alderson wrote:
> From: Josh Dersch
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:20 PM
>
>   
>> Thanks for the advice.  After a few hours' fiddling I've got the drive
>> reading/writing reliably.  Now to find some 400k images of mac software
>> that'll run on a 128k :).
>>     
>
> One of these days one of my tuits will be other than rhomboidal, and I'll put
> System 7.5 on the 6100 in my storage locker (since that's the last version of
> Mac OS that will deal with 400K disks) to run disk copy 

Untrue.  I've both created and read 400K disk images with Disk Copy (and
DART) on various PPC machines running upto OS 9.
This includes some Powerbooks as well as a TAM and and 7100.

You do not need System 7.5.  All that's required is Disk Copy and a
SuperDrive or 800K floppy drive. (USB floppy drives will not work.)

If you wish to read the files on MFS you need System 6 (or MFS lives on
OS X).




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