Basilisk and Mini vMac hard drive images are not compatible with real hardware because they do not emulate SCSI. They overwrite the driver in the ROM with their own disk code. You can use the Disk Jockey utility on modern macOS or Windows to convert between Basilisk / Mini vMac type images and images compatible with real hardware.
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Macintosh SE crushed
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That's odd, I've been freely exchanging disk images between a Basilisk II instance and my SE/30 with a ZuluSCSI without problems.
well... For now, it works well. But I even don't know how I fixed it.... I just replace all the parts except CRT, and check it if anything leaks. I found nothing. Then I put them together and determine the voltage of power supply, and all the capacitances. 5V and 12V all works well. Then I just put it and didn't use it for two days, and then it can power on successfully and the floppy icon with question mark appeared, but it read nothing.
Oh! This may cause some problems, but for floppy, I use a software called HFVE(maybe this?) on Windows to write system disk.
em.. I can describe it. For CRT, if you restart it quickly, it can show image faster, the reset is that when you restart the normal Macintosh, the image before mouse and floppy icon shown, and it will restart automatically with the speaker made "beep" sounds, just like normal start up. I tried to watch them for about five minutes, and it just reset and reset.
Ha? But I can write 800k. And I bought a floppy that works well, it also can't be read....
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Windows PCs can not write 800k disks for a Macintosh!
To write 800k disks in a way to be readable by a Mac, you need the Apple GCR encoding which is not supported on PC floppy drive controllers. You can only write them using the IWM/SWIM chips on vintage Mac or Apple II systems.
Yeah, thanks. But the thing is I bought a readable floppy from local seller, but it still couldn't work
