I am not sure about your floppy disc issue. These early Macs were incapable of recognising the later 700 MB size CD-R/-RW. So, you would need to find/purchase/use a compatible, external CD reader/writer anyways.Īlso, pertaining to CDs, early Macs and early PowerMacs that had built-in CD readers could only read and use the 650 MB size optical discs and these discs had to be the -R/RW type. You needed third party hardwarw/software to accomplish this.Īlso, I believe the CD drive is a ROM drive and has no way to write to a disc.
I do not believe any old MacOS version had any abilty to burn discs natively. Look for Roxio Toast 5 as this may work as its requirements are Mac OS 8.6 or later. You do not "format" optical dtive media using the OS disk utility.įor the CDs you will need to find burning software that is compatible with older Mac OS, like an olde version of Roxio Toast that'll run on Mac OS 9.2.2 for formatting and burning a disc with data you setup to be transferred and burned to disc. I am trying to recover data from backup floppies from my Mac SE (the SCSI drive finally failed), but while I can access most of the data on the Performa, only the G3 has the capability for me to move the files from the Mac-only floppies to other media via CD/USB/Ethernet. Ran Disk Utility, and no errors in the system, so unsure on what the problem could be.Īny help resolving this is much appreciated. The same error occurs when given a blank CD, which the pop-up asks to initialize in the PC format, yet fails each time. However, an attempt to initialize the disk results in a write error and fails. If given a floppy with data on it (both Mac and PC formatted, and both accepted on the Performa), it only gives a message to initialize the disk, and only in Mac 800K or DOS 800k. My main issue is with the Powermac, and that it will not recognize or format disks (both floppies and CDs). Currently have come across a Performa 6200CD and a Powermac G3 266Mhz.
So rather an odd question, but I have been unable to locate any information relating any similar issue to what I am experiencing.
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