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Baskilisk II, vmac, and zip drives
Do any versions of baskilisk or minivmac out there support using an actual internal zip drive?
I assume you want to do this to share/generate disks for use on a physical Mac with the emulator?
Short answer: it's pretty trivally doable on Linux and MacOS (easier on Linux) with the proviso that the ZIP will be treated like a hard disk and will have to be present at boot 'till shutdown. On Windows? No idea, don't care.
Short answer: it's pretty trivally doable on Linux and MacOS (easier on Linux) with the proviso that the ZIP will be treated like a hard disk and will have to be present at boot 'till shutdown. On Windows? No idea, don't care.
Yes, I was hoping to fire up an emulator (Preferably on the B&W G3) and install system 6 from images to the actual zip.
If the emulator can see it as a hard disk however, that will work.
If the emulator can see it as a hard disk however, that will work.
Personally, I think your best bet is a SCSI Zip and BasiliskII's SCSI emulation.
I wish that were an option. I have an SCSI zip coming but the only computer its going to work on is a plus and that's the machine I want "post-copy" from the emulator lol..
Hi,
Do you have any PPC/Intel Macs capable of running Mac OS X 10.4.x or below?
If you do, you could get yourself a USB ZIP drive (alternatively, you could get an internal ATAPI ZIP drive for your B&W G3, if it doesn't already have one). With such a setup, you should be able to use Disk Utility to format the ZIP disks for use in the Plus (with the added benefit of the disk behaving like a fixed disk; as such, it will not auto-eject at shutdown or restart, which is nice if you're going to be using it as a semi-permanent boot disk).
One caveat you should be aware of, however: the Mac OS 9 disk drivers that Disk Utility installs on the disk may not be compatible with the Plus (upon insertion of an incompatible disk, the computer will display a dialog, complaining that you need a 68040 or PPC machine to mount a volume over 4 GB; I don't know why this is, but it obviously means that it's incompatible somehow). If you're faced with such a disk, you should find yourself a copy of the patched Apple HD SC Setup v. 7.3.5 and run the disk through that (on a classic Mac, of course) before you use it on your OS X machine; it should still work fine on OS X even if it's been formatted on the Plus (I've confirmed that a disk formatted on a Classic II will function properly on OS X; the Plus may be slightly different, but it should still work).
I hope this helps :b&w:
Please feel free to PM any other ZIP-related questions.
c
Do you have any PPC/Intel Macs capable of running Mac OS X 10.4.x or below?
If you do, you could get yourself a USB ZIP drive (alternatively, you could get an internal ATAPI ZIP drive for your B&W G3, if it doesn't already have one). With such a setup, you should be able to use Disk Utility to format the ZIP disks for use in the Plus (with the added benefit of the disk behaving like a fixed disk; as such, it will not auto-eject at shutdown or restart, which is nice if you're going to be using it as a semi-permanent boot disk).
One caveat you should be aware of, however: the Mac OS 9 disk drivers that Disk Utility installs on the disk may not be compatible with the Plus (upon insertion of an incompatible disk, the computer will display a dialog, complaining that you need a 68040 or PPC machine to mount a volume over 4 GB; I don't know why this is, but it obviously means that it's incompatible somehow). If you're faced with such a disk, you should find yourself a copy of the patched Apple HD SC Setup v. 7.3.5 and run the disk through that (on a classic Mac, of course) before you use it on your OS X machine; it should still work fine on OS X even if it's been formatted on the Plus (I've confirmed that a disk formatted on a Classic II will function properly on OS X; the Plus may be slightly different, but it should still work).
I hope this helps :b&w:
Please feel free to PM any other ZIP-related questions.
c
Luckily the G3 and G4 both have internal ATAPI ZIP drives! The G4 has 10.4.11 as well so It can handle the task. 