I have been a little busy lately.
I think I may have had a breakthrough on the serial SCC based MacBottom.
I was brainstorming thinking about how to obtain a driver for the MacBottom. That driver is long since gone. Mac128K had figured this out too. But I never gave up.
Well, I had a hunch. maybe its a chicken in the egg syndrome? Would it be possible the driver of the MacBottom is also on the harddrive itself? Well, why not?
ding.ding.ding....
I found a guy that would read MFM drives with the beaglebone. Told him the controller, I sent him the drive, and he dumped it into a RAW file for me. It wont mount in anything I have, HFVExplorer wont mount it, nothing mounts it.
But i digress...
I opened the file in Hex Workshop, did some skimming through. It appears the original owner used this drive to back up another drive called a "purple 20" with +DiskFit. This diskfit backup is still on the MacBottom.
Inside the diskfit backup, the Purple 20 stuff was in there. The Purple 20 drive appears to be the boot drive, it has a Utilities Folder, and a System Folder.
Further down in the hex code, sure enough purple 20 was his boot volume, And you guessed it. MacBottom drivers and utilities.... BAM... i love hunches, and i love when they are right.
Problem is, How do i extract the information out of this file? the file has a ton of personal information so I dont know if i should post the raw dump. Maybe send it to a member here that thinks they can get the HFS/MFS volume to mount and extract the stuff.
I think I may have had a breakthrough on the serial SCC based MacBottom.
I was brainstorming thinking about how to obtain a driver for the MacBottom. That driver is long since gone. Mac128K had figured this out too. But I never gave up.
Well, I had a hunch. maybe its a chicken in the egg syndrome? Would it be possible the driver of the MacBottom is also on the harddrive itself? Well, why not?
ding.ding.ding....
I found a guy that would read MFM drives with the beaglebone. Told him the controller, I sent him the drive, and he dumped it into a RAW file for me. It wont mount in anything I have, HFVExplorer wont mount it, nothing mounts it.
But i digress...
I opened the file in Hex Workshop, did some skimming through. It appears the original owner used this drive to back up another drive called a "purple 20" with +DiskFit. This diskfit backup is still on the MacBottom.
Inside the diskfit backup, the Purple 20 stuff was in there. The Purple 20 drive appears to be the boot drive, it has a Utilities Folder, and a System Folder.
Further down in the hex code, sure enough purple 20 was his boot volume, And you guessed it. MacBottom drivers and utilities.... BAM... i love hunches, and i love when they are right.
Problem is, How do i extract the information out of this file? the file has a ton of personal information so I dont know if i should post the raw dump. Maybe send it to a member here that thinks they can get the HFS/MFS volume to mount and extract the stuff.