Will a modern Mac (Studio running MacOS 14.5) read a Mac 1.44 floppy?

[wildstar1063]

Like the title says will my modern Mac Studio running MacOS 14.5 read a Mac 1.44 floppy
via a USB floppy drive?
And if not, is there some kind of driver software that will allow it, I know there is
NTFS for Mac, that lets my Mac Studio to read PC formatted hard drives. So it
must at least be possible to create such a driver.

What I'm doing right now is using Basilisk II, which will read the hard drive image from
my BlueSCSI, and copying files directly to the image using that.

Basilisk II is not difficult, I had installed it on my Amiga 3000 many years ago, so I had a
good idea of how to make it work, but it seems an unnecessary third-party, if I can
get my Mac Studio to read the SE/30's floppy disks, or is there a driver to let the SE/30
to read PC floppy disks, as my Mac studio can also read/write them?

Chuck E.

 

[Nixontheknight]

it should be able to if it's formatted in HFS, if it's formatted in MFS, it will not read it

 

[joevt]

it should be able to if it's formatted in HFS, if it's formatted in MFS, it will not read it

Both HFS and MFS require a third party file system driver or app for modern macOS. Did you mean HFS+?

For HFS, fusehfs seems to work well.
https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11705
https://github.com/thejoelpatrol/fusehfs

For MFS, there's a fusemfs (Mac File System) but it's old and I've never tried it.
https://github.com/zydeco/fusemfs
I doubt you have any MFS formatted 1.44 MB disks.

Here's some relevant reading:
https://siber-sonic.com/mac/newmillfloppy.html

 

[LaPorta]

If the disk is formatted as HFS+, I would think that it would.

 

[wildstar1063]

Another possibility, is FTP. With my Amiga 3000T and my Vampire V4 standalone I use an FTP program to transfer files back and forth with my Mac studio. Is there an FTP program that will work with Mac System 7x?

 

[nathall]

Several. Anarchie is my go-to, I run it under 7.0.1 in my “SE/16”.

 

[wildstar1063]

Several. Anarchie is my go-to, I run it under 7.0.1 in my “SE/16”.

Cool! thanks. Now I just need to look into what software I need to get my Assante
Mac Con network adapter to work on this SE/30 or figure out how to get the Wi-Fi thing
To work on my BlueSCSI v2

 

[A24A]

or is there a driver to let the SE/30
to read PC floppy disks, as my Mac studio can also read/write them?

It depends on the operating system version. For example, System 7.0.1 and 7.1 would have an Apple File Exchange utility on one of the system floppies (Tidbits). Special 7.1 versions and System 7.5 have a PC Exchange control panel.

 

[Fred1212]

The Assante maccon software can be found on Macintosh garden

 

[LaPorta]

If there was a "PC Exchange" for System 6, I'd be happy.

 

[nathall]

If there was a "PC Exchange" for System 6, I'd be happy.

I use the DOSMounter extension on System 6 (and 7.0.1 actually). It adds the ability to read/write/format DOS disks to the Finder, just like later System versions.

 

[LaPorta]

I use the DOSMounter extension on System 6 (and 7.0.1 actually). It adds the ability to read/write/format DOS disks to the Finder, just like later System versions.

Really? Thank you, I was unaware of such a program.

 

[nathall]

Really? Thank you, I was unaware of such a program.

Yes. DOS Mounter 4 specifically is what I use:

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-plus-40