On Thu, 9 May 2013, Steve Nickolas wrote:
I once went through a few Mac hard drives, combiining the contents on one, and the moved the image of that hard drive to my Linux computer. It's not perfect, and i'm still mining it, but it's certainly useful to have all the Mac stuff in one place, and readable more or else from the computer I'm used to.On Thu, 9 May 2013, Bill Buckels wrote:"David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:That's the beauty of the '3000... it gives you one more layer of indirection (disk images vs. partitions) so that moving data around in the real world is just that much simpler. Yes, CiderPress+CF cards works. But 32MB .po images are simply files to all operating systemsand tools. You make a good case David. Thanks again for the good thoughts. BillMy idea would have the 3.5" disks formatted in such a way that they could be read by the same tools used to read MS-DOS disks. (dd, raread/rawrite, and I've thrown together such tools myself).
Basically, a hardware implementation of the slot 5 floppy drive in Dapple (which maps to the A: drive).
That sounds vaguely familiar.Don't forget, the first hard drive for the original Macintosh connected via the floppy port. The original intent was to use the serial port, but then they discovered it was too slow. Third parties put the drive inside, adding an interface to the motherboard. But Apple's first hard drive used the floppy port.
I have no details of how that wsa done, but there must be enough signal lines to do it.
Michael