SE/30 floppy questions

[G-Laser]

So, I'm not only at the beginning stages of getting my SE/30 to a restored state, but I'm also learning more and more about. One thing that I justed checked was if it had an 800K or SuperDrive in it. I put a  floppy in and formatted it and low and behold, it formatted to 1,404. Close enough to 1.44. I then popped that floppy into two of my PCs (One with a real floppy and one with a USB floppy). Neither would read the disk.
I loaded up the ol' Hex editor so see what was on sector 0. All that was F6's.

So, any ideas what's going on OR what I might be missing (due to a little n00b on my part)?

(UPDATE: Ok, a little more looking and I noticed that Sector 1 and 2 did have something other than F6's so I probably have some more investigating to do).

Thanks,

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

PC and Mac floppies tend to be formatted differently IIRC. There are tools you can download for PC to read Mac floppies.

SE/30's came standard with a 1.44MB SuperDrive.

 

[bobo68]

You should be able to format in PC/IBM/DOS format on the SE/30 instead of Apple's HFS (depends on the System you use). Likewise you should be able to read and write PC formatted floppies on the Mac. Does it work that way?

 

[G-Laser]

Well, that's what I thought as well but if I format in the PC, the Mac claims it isn't initialized and proceeds to format it. I've tried a few floppies and had the same experience.
I was able to copy to the floppy using HFVExplorer since I did format it on the Mac. I just wondered if I should expect to be able to read a PC formatted floppy on the SE/30.

You should be able to format in PC/IBM/DOS format on the SE/30 instead of Apple's HFS (depends on the System you use). Likewise you should be able to read and write PC formatted floppies on the Mac. Does it work that way?

 

[lopaka1998]

Yes you can as long as you have PC Exchange installed.  It came with the os starting with system 7.  You may have to hunt for it during installation to find it.  It may not have been installed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Exchange

 I just wondered if I should expect to be able to read a PC formatted floppy on the SE/30.

 

[bobo68]

See also https://support.apple.com/kb/TA28512?locale=en_US

 

[G-Laser]

Thanks all!
I think the problem here is I try and try and get nowhere so then I give up and ask. As soon as I do that, I find the answer. I need to make a Forum that no one visits and then just post questions. By shear magic, the answer will come to me. This goes inline with my stuffed coding bear. He's this stuffed animal (doesn't have to be a bear) that sits on your desk and when you run into a coding issue, you speak to it just like a person. When you do this, the answer will come to you. You don't need a real person because that just bothers them and speaking the problem out loud usually reveals the answer. Why do you need something to talk to you might ask? Because people think it's weird when someone talks to themselves and speaking to a stuffed animal seems a little less crazy.

 

[bobo68]

Try a diary.  :beige:

 

[G-Laser]

LOL! Men don't have diaries! We have journals.