DeeAnn
Experienced Member
I understand that Apple killed OS support for floppies long ago. However, are there any modern day solutions for Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey? The reason is that I have a ton of ancient software that I want to archive...
But that should still allow simply using dd in a Terminal to make an image of the disk, shouldn't it? It's not needed for that that the OS mounts the disk or understands the file system.The latest OSX versions don't support HFS formats on floppies, only HFS+. That abandons just about all the early 90s Mac floppies. There are a few tools to read HFS floppies on Catalina or later but I haven't used them so I will let someone else recommend one.
Low density (400k/800k) disks will not have the density notch on them. (The notch opposite of the write protect notch).Actually, I don't know for sure. The floppies are basically from late 80's to mid-90's, so it is entirely that they either 400k or 800k...