A lot of the early Macs (pre-G3) don't have USB ports, so transferring files and backing up data can become tricky. One of the more simple solutions for file storage and transfers between Mac OS 9 and modern Macs/PCs is to use a NAS (network attached storage) drive. A NAS drive is a box containing one or multiple hard drives and connects to your internet router. Any computer that's connected to your local network can access the NAS drive and the contents stored on it. Transferring data over USB on Mac OS 9 can be incredibly slow due to it only utilising USB 1.1 drivers. Transferring files from a NAS drive over Ethernet is a much faster option.
Usb File Format For Mac Os 9
When looking for a NAS drive you need to ensure you find one that supports AFP - Apple Filing Protocol. By using the AFP protocol for file transfers you can easily connect to the drive on Mac OS with the Network Browser application. This allows you to mount the drive onto your desktop as a normal hard drive would appear.
You can downgrade the firmware of your device easily, but do this at your own risk. To do this, log into the web portal and navigate to Settings > Firmware Update > and upload the firmware file for your device with the Update from File button.The firmware file for the WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra can be downloaded here - do this at your own risk, we do not take responsibility if you brick your device.
Step 15: The install process will begin by purging the contents of the connected USB drive, making the drive bootable, and copying the installer files to the drive. Because this process takes a few minutes to complete, please be patient.
Apple File System (APFS), the default file system for Mac computers using macOS 10.13 or later, features strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, fast directory sizing and improved file system fundamentals. While APFS is optimised for the Flash/SSD storage used in recent Mac computers, it can also be used with older systems with traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and external, direct-attached storage. macOS 10.13 or later supports APFS for both bootable and data volumes.
This guide assumes you are installing Mac OS 9.2 on a 2gb file that will act as your hard disk for Mac OS. The CD image you install from is called MacOS9.2.iso and the hard disk is called MacOS9.2.img
qemu-system-ppc.exe ^-L pc-bios ^-M mac99,via=pmu ^-m 512 ^-display sdl ^-boot d ^-drive file=MacOS9.2.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^-drive file=MacOS9.2.img,format=raw,media=disk
Forwarding port 21 to the host allows running an ftp server (such as Netpresenz) on an Mac OS 9.x guest and read/write access to the file system of the guest. Make sure to use an FTP client capable of active transfer mode on the host (such as Filezilla, we are dealing with an old guest system after all.) For access to a Mac OS X guest, enable the ftp service.You can access the guest by connecting to -or-ip-adress-of-host:2121 from other machines running on your network.
Print directly to a networked printer you have Mac OS/OSX drivers for. This assumes you have set up tap networking so Mac OS can see the windows network and networked printer.Print to a file that is moved to the host to print. How to print to e.g., a pdf file depends on the guest operating system.
Create an empty folder to be used to exchange files. In the example below, the folder c:\QemuVVFAT is used.Add the following to your command line: -device usb-storage,drive=fat32 -drive file=fat:rw:c:\QemuVVFAT,id=fat32,format=raw,if=none
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A bootable macOS (previously, OS X) install disk is a portable device containing all the necessary installation files for a selected version of macOS. Why would you want to create an external boot drive for your Mac?
Note this approach to formatting a drive for Mac and Windows PC compatibility are the same on basically every version of MacOS and Mac OS X, but the screenshots may look slightly different depending on your OS version. The result is still the same however when it comes to formatting the drive.
The primary downside to using FAT32 is the file size limit, which limits files on the drive to being 4GB in size or less. If you require single files to be larger than 4GB, use exFAT instead, though you will lose some compatibility with older versions of Mac OS X and Windows.
Mac users can mount and read NTFS formatted Windows drives, making NTFS compatible with the Mac on the reading and mounting front, but writing to an NTFS drive requires using either third party software or enabling NTFS write support on the Mac using an experimental functionality bundled on the Mac. This is less than ideal for most users however, so while NTFS is compatible with a Mac and Windows PC, if you want to do heavy file sharing between the two with a lot of reading and writing, you may be better off formatting a drive as FAT32 as discussed above.
The MS DOS FAT cuts the availability of space on the flash drive. I have a 16gb SanDisk that I wanted to put a movie onto. The movie was 8gb. It gave me errors and would not copy the file. Said format problem. So I reformatted to Apple (journaled) and had no more problems. But now, of course, a PC cannot read the flash drive. A POX ON MICROSOFT!!!!!
No, why should an operating system support the file systems of other operating systems? HFS+ can be used for Mac volumes, NTFS can be useed for Windows volumes and Ext3 and Ext4 can be used for Linux volumes. There should be no need for Mac OS X to support NTFS, Ext3 and Ext4 and there should be no need for Windows to support HFS+, Ext3 and Ext4.
I have a Promise NAS4300 server on which the Windows protocol is not working. Therefore I can no longer access the files on it from Windows. However it does have AppleTalk and by using an abandoned MAC (OS9) I managed to access the NAS and can copy files to an external USB drive. (Note that my knowledge of MAC's is minimal I had never even seen one before)
The problemn is it's incredibly slow, I suspect the USB might be V1 not 2. I have 280Gb to transfer and it does about 1-2 Gb in nearly 2 hours! Therefore I thought file sharing would be a much faster and feasible method.
I first tried to set up file sharing by sharing a folder on the PC, connecting both computers to my work network, enabling TCP on the MAC and assigning a suitable IP address. No luck.I also tried a direct MAC - PC connection using both straight-through and cross-connected cables and suitable IP addresses again but still no joy.
EDIT 4/10: You'd think they would have a suitable utility as this must be a fairly common problem!Anyone interested, have posted new question: "Does anyone have experience recovering the files from a Promise NS4300 server disk?". IN other words want to access the files on the NAS drive from a Windows PC.
An ftp:// url might work, but if it does, you can run an FTP client on a PC, too. But you're after the from mac to PC direction which puts you at needing a Mac FTP client that will "put" files (one of the above), or an ftp server running on the Mac (possibly also one of the above) from which you can "get" files on the PC (unless the NAS does ftp itself, in which case, no Mac needed and you'd be happy.)
Web Sharing --Windows-based computers can connect to your Macintosh via Web browsers (HTTP) when you have turned on the Web Sharing feature in the Web Sharing control panel. Any computer, not just those using Windows or Mac OS, that can make a standard HTTP connection should be able to get files from your computer via Web Sharing.
Follow the installation instructions, then run the CS-32 application. Choose Import... under the file menu and navigate to the Reason keyset. This is normally installed in /Applications/CS-32/keysets (or /Applications/CS-32 MIDI/keysets for CS-32 MIDI users). Quit the application. This step only needs to be performed once.
Although the JLC OMS Driver is included in the software installer for the CS-32 USB, that installer may not install this file correctly when running under non-English versions of the Mac OS. If you have experienced this problem, then you can manually install this driver.
Although the JLC FreeMIDI Driver is included in the software installer for the CS-32 USB, that installer may not install this file correctly when running under non-English versions of the Mac OS. If you have experienced this problem, then you can manually install this driver.
You can also install an extension by dragging the file onto the System Folder, which automatically puts it in the Extensions folder. However, if you drag it into the System Folder window you must drag it manually into Extensions afterwards.
Information about a highlighted item is shown in the optional pane at the bottom of the window. And by using the Preferences menu you can add columns that show the Type and Creator codes.
During a normal startup, all the software necessary for the Mac system is extracted from the appropriate files in the System Folder and is loaded into memory. This operation is done in sequence, working through the files in the folders of the System Folder as follows:-
Extensions use various mechanisms that have developed over a period of time. The Finder identifies these special files as particular Kinds, such as Apple Guide document, application program, Chooser extension, communications tool, document, library or system extension.
For further information about extensions you should refer to The InformINIT (D E Frakes). This is the only document that even approaches this daunting and rather frightening part of the Macintosh. 2ff7e9595c
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