Re: create floppy without a mac

• On Sun, 5/1/11, gilles <gilles.fetis_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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