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Re: How to Read 800K floppies??
Daniel Garcia writes:
>
> I think it has to do with the fact that, in order to get 800K out of their
> floppies, the mac played some serious games with things like sectors per
> track, head speed, and such (the amiga did this as well). Without driver
> level support (for the mac format) under linux, not sure what to tell you.
>
> This is all my own opinion and how i recall it, and may be wrong :)
No you're right. I now remember that the apple 720K drive had variable
speed and the peecee drive cannot handle the ~800K floppies without
some funky hardware.
Thanks to all who responded.
PK
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