Re: create floppy without a mac

Thanks,
If it works I'll document more in detail the transfer method using an emulator, a CF reader and Xprofile.

On 2 mai, 01:02, Natalia Portillo <clau..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Check on your email, I've sent it directly
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> El 01/05/2011, a las 21:43, gilles escribido:
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> > 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.
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> > 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:
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> >>> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> -Ian
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