BMOW Floppy Emu — #2

Post #2 by MidnightCommando

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 - 07:24
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/bmow-floppy-emu.1353/

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In Larry Pina's book "Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets", the author discusses fitting Mac Plus ROMs to a Mac 128 to use HFS floppy drives but does not mention the HD20.

Mac128 said:
[the HD20] can be formatted MFS, but requires by default that the HFS file system be loaded, or present in the case of the 128K ROM or later. This means it cannot be used on a stock 128K.

These two suggest that it may be theoretically possible, using the Mac Plus ROMs with the 128k, to use the HD20 ... but I can't find any evidence that it's been tried yet.