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Re: How to Read 800K floppies??



> I'm having trouble reading 720 K mac floppies on my linux box. I can
> read 1.44 just fine by setting MacVolumes to /dev/fd0...
Um..I don't think you can.  As I recall, the Mac 800K floppies used
Constant Linear Velocity recording instead of Constant Angular Velocity
recording.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe
that is one of the reasons they got 800k out of the floppy.

--Toby Everett


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