Re: create floppy without a mac

From: gilles <gilles.fetis_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 13:43:00 -0700 (PDT)

It was not the subject, I want the lisa to write the floppy. The transfer in itself is made with Card Flash from the PC to the Xprofile.

On 1 mai, 22:29, Mr Ian Primus <ian_pri..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 5/1/11, gilles <gilles.fe..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > I need to find a way to create lisa
> > floppy but without a mac (they are
> > 400km away...).
> > I already have a method to transfer emulator profile image
> > to Xprofile
> > but I need a way to image floppy (images) under the
> > emulator.
>
> Unfortunately, you can't write a Lisa floppy disk from a PC. The floppy controller handles MFM encoding only, and can't read or write the GCR encoded Lisa/Macintosh disks. High density Mac floppies are MFM, and therefore able to be read and written on PC's, but 800k/400k disks can't. You need a Macintosh.
>
> Any Macintosh with a built in floppy drive will work (use DiskCopy 4.2). Later Macs with USB floppy drives won't work, for the same reason - the USB floppy drives only handle MFM encoded disks.
>
> -Ian

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