Hi all,
I recently bought a scsi2sd card and am using it in a Macintosh LC III. I was able to configure it and put in a 4GB SD card, initialize it using a patched Apple SC HD Setup utility, and install Macintosh System 7.1 on it. It worked great.
The next thing I am wondering is what is the recommended way of transferring files other than the floppy drive in the LC III? I was thinking, it is an SD card, there has to be a way of popping it into my pc and using HFV explorer or something. Here is my experience so far:
For my pc, I am using a linux laptop with HFV utils installed, and I can run HFV explorer in wine and also have a basilisk emulator set up. When I pop in the SD card, linux mounts the Macintosh HD partition ok and I can actually browse around in there. I didn't want to try just copying over the .sit files and other software because of the resource fork issues, etc. HFV explorer recognizes this partition as a DOS partition for some reason. So basically the way I tried to do this was I created an image of that partition, brought it up in Basilisk, copied over the software I wanted, then closed basilisk and rewrote the image to the sd card. I put it in my LC III and it booted, and mostly worked. There were some directories that I couldn't open (it gave me an error -50) and there were some icons (like the icon for teachtext) that were all garbled. Spooky stuff. That makes me think that either something got corrupted or the SD card was dying (I have re-initialized it quite a few times to be honest).
I could try again using a different sd card. But I am wondering if there is a quicker/easier/safer way of doing this. Also I would prefer not to have to get a scsi controller.
Thanks!
I recently bought a scsi2sd card and am using it in a Macintosh LC III. I was able to configure it and put in a 4GB SD card, initialize it using a patched Apple SC HD Setup utility, and install Macintosh System 7.1 on it. It worked great.
The next thing I am wondering is what is the recommended way of transferring files other than the floppy drive in the LC III? I was thinking, it is an SD card, there has to be a way of popping it into my pc and using HFV explorer or something. Here is my experience so far:
For my pc, I am using a linux laptop with HFV utils installed, and I can run HFV explorer in wine and also have a basilisk emulator set up. When I pop in the SD card, linux mounts the Macintosh HD partition ok and I can actually browse around in there. I didn't want to try just copying over the .sit files and other software because of the resource fork issues, etc. HFV explorer recognizes this partition as a DOS partition for some reason. So basically the way I tried to do this was I created an image of that partition, brought it up in Basilisk, copied over the software I wanted, then closed basilisk and rewrote the image to the sd card. I put it in my LC III and it booted, and mostly worked. There were some directories that I couldn't open (it gave me an error -50) and there were some icons (like the icon for teachtext) that were all garbled. Spooky stuff. That makes me think that either something got corrupted or the SD card was dying (I have re-initialized it quite a few times to be honest).
I could try again using a different sd card. But I am wondering if there is a quicker/easier/safer way of doing this. Also I would prefer not to have to get a scsi controller.
Thanks!
that's how I get files to and from my Mac SE on 7.1.
