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- From: ckr2196@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Caryn K. Roberts)
- Subject: Re: How to read MAC disks on PC?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.225002.4186@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: none
- References: <817@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:50:02 GMT
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- From article <817@ulogic.UUCP>, by hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman):
- > 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
- >
- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- > "If we do not succeed, we risk failure." -D. Quayle
-
-
- GIGO.
- Mac disks are formatted just like MS-DOS disks except that density varies
- per track on Mac disks. In early Macs the disk speed was varied, but 800k
- and 1.44m discs accomplish this by varing the data read/write stream.
-
- Caryn Kristen Roberts (206)237-2870(days) Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Internet: ckr2196@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com ditto
- In real life the following works just fine:
- AOL: CarynKR2 FIDO: Caryn Roberts (1:343/104) Internet: CarynKR2@aol.com
- Best Internet: Caryn.Roberts@f104.n343.z1.fidonet.org
-
- --
- Caryn Kristen Roberts (206)237-2870(days) Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Internet: ckr2196@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com ditto
- In real life the following works just fine:
- AOL: CarynKR2 FIDO: Caryn Roberts (1:343/104) Internet: CarynKR2@aol.com
-