1400cs Won't Read CR-RW

[CatMorgan]

Kinda what it says.  I'm working on getting disk images to the 1400 to make 800k floppies for the Mac Plus, and I hit upon the idea of using a CD-RW in order to move stuff from the Mac Pro to the PB to the Plus. (Bridge Macs FTW.). I know the drive in the PB works, it loads up, say, the Warcraft CD-R I burned just fine.  I used Verbatim CD-RW, the only ones I could actually find in small quantity.  My CD-R spindle is Memorex (I've been using them to make games for the iMac and now the G3 all along.). 

CD-RW reads fine in the Mac Pro.  

Limitation of the PB? Weirdness with media? Getting an ether dongle later in the week for the PB so could set up some sort of network share (I legit have no idea how to do this between OS8 and High Sierra.). 

Thanks! 

 

[LaPorta]

To my recollection, the PB 1400 drives were unable to read RWs. I’d say great plan...just use the CD-Rs. They are a few cents now.

P.S. - Can’t network 8 and High Sierra directly.

 

[CatMorgan]

Ahh okay. Yeah I can burn one prolly  

I was gonna try and set up a rudimentary FTP on the Pro and FTP into it from the 1400, not try to make them talk directly over the LAN.  I have a hard time sometimes getting HS to talk to Sierra, let alone OS 8! 

Thanks! 

 

[LaPorta]

That works really well. Use Fetch or something on the 1400...i have that set up as need be.

 

[MikeatOSX]

P.S. - Can’t network 8 and High Sierra directly.

Networking between PowerBooks and recent Macs can be done with Timbuktu with Ethernet (-card) on PowerBooks. 

Timbuktu v4.6 on old Macs (OS 7.x, 8.x, 9.x) v8.8.5 on recent Macs (find files in Macintosh Garden, Tumbuktu is not sold anymore).

I do this regulary. 

 

[LaPorta]

Yes but i never got it to work. 10.15 SMB protocols are too new for Dave or timbuktu.

 

[MikeatOSX]

Timbuktu has it's own protocol. 
I can easily copy files between my recent Mac and my SE/30 and many PowerBooks (except PB 1xx).
I've written a "How to do" - sorry it's in German only - but when you look at the pictures you can see how it works:
https://www.mediafire.com/download/5rd01rj1hrq6g34

 

[MikeatOSX]

I copied the idea from "jrwil", thanks to him:

 

[LaPorta]

I will give this a go. Nothing to lose. I can translate the German.

 

[Cory5412]

If you have OS 8.1 on the PB1400, you can format a CF card in it as HFS+ and insert that in a USB card reader on your modern mac and use that to transfer files. I use a 4GB card for this but bigger should work fine as well.

Plain HFS (for 8.0 and older) should work fine, but you'll need a modern mac that read and write plain HFS, which was removed at some point.

 Plain FAT might also work, but for some types of data (not usually dc42 disk images as far as I know) you'll have to worry about the resource forks.

 

[MikeatOSX]

Yes, this is the "usual" fast way.

But does't work on System 7.x.