![]() ![]() More specifically, Gwenolé Beauchesne's SheepShaver Help Center sports a Using SheepShaver page with a "Using floppy disks" section that reads, Floppy disks are not automatically detected when they are inserted. The official SheepShaver home page states that SheepShaver provides "access to floppy disks". Mounting floppy disks in the SheepShaver environment: what doesn't work One of my mountable floppy disks is a "Claris" floppy that holds ClarisWorks 2.1 plus a set of supporting files ("Claris Fonts", "Claris Help System", etc.) - we'll use this disk as our 'test floppy' in the following discussion. (BTW, Alsoft's DiskWarrior, with which I have no experience, is supposed to be able to repair damaged Mac-formatted floppy disks that are 'beyond the reach' of Disk Utility.) As for the floppies that won't mount, I suspect that they've 'gone bad', although I can't rule out that there might be a problem with the VST drive and/or its compatibility with an Intel Mac. I have a small collection of about twenty floppy disks, some of them containing files and some of them blank, and I find that I can mount on the OS X desktop about two-thirds of these disks. Below I'll show you how to bring a floppy disk volume into the SheepShaver environment assuming that you can get that volume mounted on the OS X desktop in the first place.īack in 1999 I bought a VST USB floppy disk drive to accompany my G3 iMac - let's dust it off, shall we? (As you may know, VST isn't around anymore: the extant Web site notwithstanding, VST was years ago acquired by SmartDisk, which in turn has more recently been taken over by Verbatim.) I hook the VST floppy drive up to my Intel iMac the drive shows up in the System Profiler's Contents ⇒ Hardware ⇒ USB section but, unlike the Iomega ZipCD drive discussed in the previous post, does not appear in Disk Utility's "disk, volume, or image" menu unless I load a disk into it. Today's post is for those in the audience who have floppy disks containing Classic Mac applications and documents that they want to make use of on an Intel Mac via the SheepShaver emulator. It's a shame that floppies have an annoying tendency to go belly up, isn't it? In my book, however, a floppy disk remains a convenient medium for temporarily backing up and storing a small amount of data. I don't know how many people out there are still using floppy disks for at least the last four years I myself haven't used them at all. (In this post, " floppy disk" specifically refers to a 3½-inch HD floppy - you know, this guy.) Peak Location: Escondido, CA, United States ![]()
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