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hello everyone, 

i tried the program called macdisk to transfer sound designer for EII
to macintosh se, unfortunately macdisk wont regognize any disks
formatted by my mac se.. and vice versa, mac se wont read disks
formatted by macdisk. so i´m asking is there any other way to install
sound designer eII.bin to mac than floppydisk? i have a lot of
different scsi-disks, -cdroms, -zip etc. drives if it helps. 

thank you.

- t

scsi zip should work perfectly BUT:
You should download SDforEII on a (modern) macintosh, and put it on
your Zip from that macintosh, not from a windows machine. I always
faced problems doing that.

seems i have overmodern apples here :) ..ibook, imac, macpro.. *damn*
any of those does not have any kind of scsi interface, instead i´m
using pIII for scsi-transfers. thanks for advice, let´s see if i can
figure something. 

ps. next thing i´m trying is burning .bin file on (modern) mac to cd
and opening it with scsi-cd on the SE.

-t 

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@...> wrote:
>
> scsi zip should work perfectly BUT:
> You should download SDforEII on a (modern) macintosh, and put it on
> your Zip from that macintosh, not from a windows machine. I always
> faced problems doing that.
>

Here's how I do it:

I have both, an SCSI AND a USB Zip Drive.
I use my SCSI ZIP drive with my old mac se. I format the zip disk with
the SE.

Then, i put it in the USB zip drive connected to the "modern" mac,
with which i downloaded SD4EII. Put it on the zip disk. Put the zip
disk back into the scsi drive connected with the se.

Ready.

did you need any drivers for ZIP drive? i´ve tried both, internal and
external, neither one mounted.. external scsi-cdrom was also useless. 

next thing i´ll try to read that 20mb scsi-HD with transmac.

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@...> wrote:
>
> Here's how I do it:
> 
> I have both, an SCSI AND a USB Zip Drive.
> I use my SCSI ZIP drive with my old mac se. I format the zip disk with
> the SE.
> 
> Then, i put it in the USB zip drive connected to the "modern" mac,
> with which i downloaded SD4EII. Put it on the zip disk. Put the zip
> disk back into the scsi drive connected with the se.
> 
> Ready.
>

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "roisto" <roisto@...> wrote:
>
> i tried the program called macdisk to transfer sound designer for EII
> to macintosh se, unfortunately macdisk wont regognize any disks
> formatted by my mac se.. and vice versa, mac se wont read disks
> formatted by macdisk.

http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se.html

"In August 1989 Apple began to ship the SE with their high density
floppy drive, known as the FDHD (floppy drive, high density) or
SuperDrive (for its ability to read and write IBM-format floppies with
additional software). Not only did this provide 1.4 MB capacity, but
also the ability to read and write 3.5" DOS disks using special software.

Olders SEs with their original ROMs do not support high density
floppies. However, they can be used with FDHD drives as long as the
disks used are 800K floppies."

Maybe one of these will help?
http://lowendmac.com/tech/floppies.html
http://www.lowendmac.com/sable/07/0315.html
http://www.lowendmac.com/brierley/06/0613.html

If not, you might want to explain your situation and ask your question
in the Compact Mac forum here: http://68kmla.net/forums/

Hi!
No - I didn't need any drivers for the zip drive, it worked at once,
without problems. The only issue was, that I had to find out, that the
Zip disks (100 MB) have to be devided into 20 MB partitions, otherwise
the mac wouldn't format correctly.

This zip circuit ( pc-usb-zip  <-->  mac-scsi-zip ) is very practical,
also for transferring own banks and samples (EMXP) from PC to EII.

I yet haven't managed to get a CD-Rom Drive working with my old SE though.

Greetz,
Elm.

thanks guys fo help, this is how i did it:

i ripped internal scsi-disk from SE, mounted it with transmac software
in WIN XP, saved whole disk to image (.dmg), opened the image and put
some stuff in, then copied image file to ZIP and mounted internal ZIP
drive into SE. works perfectly and operating system SD4EII included is
running now from ZIP. running the qhole system from ZIP is faster and
more quiet also. now some cabling and i should be there..


--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> No - I didn't need any drivers for the zip drive, it worked at once,
> without problems. The only issue was, that I had to find out, that the
> Zip disks (100 MB) have to be devided into 20 MB partitions, otherwise
> the mac wouldn't format correctly.
> 
> This zip circuit ( pc-usb-zip  <-->  mac-scsi-zip ) is very practical,
> also for transferring own banks and samples (EMXP) from PC to EII.
> 
> I yet haven't managed to get a CD-Rom Drive working with my old SE
though.
> 
> Greetz,
> Elm.
>