![]() ![]() The built-in floppy drive in Macs from approx. The 800K Mac format (on the 2DD/DSDD diskettes) would not be applicable here, since it requires a special variable speed floppy disk drive (used in pre-1998 Macintosh computers). All of my Korg 01/W floppies still work perfectly, though I have all of the data backed up on SysEx Librarian for safety.įirst of all, the 720K size is used for 2DD/DSDD diskettes formatted as MS-DOS, so I assume that this is what you are using for the synth. My old PowerMac 5300 would do this too, before the drive quit working.Īs to the comments on the previous post, about the floppies probably not working anymore, I find that to be not the case. This will not help most people, of course, except to point out that you can buy other vintage equipment on ebay for dirt cheap that can be used in a similar fashion. What I found I could do is to load the floppy into my Kurzweil 2500 rack which does recognize the format, transfer the files to the K2500 internal hard drive and then load them back onto a 1.4MB formatted floppy, which will then be accepted by a Mac. I don't think the available external floppy disk drives themselves are at fault, except that they don't offer drivers that do this. The Mac operating systems after System 9 do not appear to have the facility natively to recognize the 720KB format, so there will probably need to be a third party software solution. ![]() ![]() A similar question was asked and never really answered, see I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15", a late 2011 MBP and a TiBook 1GHZ. I have one solution that works for me, which I will share, but does anybody have a better way? I have found nothing useful on the web about this. I have a synth that only formats floppies in 720KB format and I need to get these files onto my Macbook Pro. ![]()
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