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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: How to read MAC disks on PC?
- Message-ID: <817@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:44:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.180549.21159@mcs.drexel.edu>
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- PC disks are formatted in concentric circles. Mac disks are
- formatted in a spiral (like your old black vinyl records). (This
- is what let Macs put 800k on a floppy that the PC could only get
- 720k on.) The Mac drive (actually the superdrive) can be controlled
- to read concentric-formatted disks. I do not believe that there is
- a way to control the standard pc drives to read spiral-formatted
- disks. There may be special hardware out there that can do it.
-
- Good luck.
-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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