Actually, I think you're misunderstanding how BasiliskII/Sheepshaver work on UNIX hosts. ... dd'ing *is* probably the correct answer for floppy transfer as apparently Sheepshaver has issues parsing floppy devices directly under OS X[/url], but for shuffling hard-disk-size volumes around, well, maybe not. Both require roughly the same level of "arcane-ity" at the command line.

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Again thanks for your thoughtful input. I am not surprised I do not understand how UNIX hosts work. As I said before, I use Macs so I don't have to. Somebody else works it out for me and it is otherwise transparent to me. Sadly, that becomes a problem when I need something outside the general parameters of Apple and its support communities' focus.

For me, trying to wrap my head around UNIX commands is a real headache. However, you are correct, if SheepShaver can directly access the ZIP disk then that would be the best option. Certainly "dd" on a 1.44MB disk is not such a risk or as time consuming, so no real loss there. I will reproduce your efforts with a flash drive using my ZIP disk under Snow Leopard and SheepShaver and see what comes of it. With any luck, it will yield and easy to setup method for mounting a ZIP disk directly in SheepShaver. Hard drives are less practical because they typically require a SCSI interface on any Mac which would require HFS.