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- From: weiss@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Gerhard Weiss AG v. Puttkamer)
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.152531.5574@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
- Keywords: Spectre, Mac
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- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- References: <1icdfqINNt3j@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:25:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch> mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
- >
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- ... Stuff deleted
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- >> >2. Is the internal SCSI disk accesssible by the Mac?
- >>
- >> Yes. You just have to set up separate partitions for Atari and Mac use.
- >
- >******* I disagree ! **********
- > A very important point - for me, it is _not_ possible to use
- >_any_ internal drive with TT and Spectre; Dave Small also states this in the manual. If John
- >can tell me how to do this, I would be very happy, but I think not!
- > I am running Spectre off an external drive, an Atari 60 Mb connected through the laser,
- >and configured as ACSI 0. Incidentally, at the moment (I have had the beast three days) I am
- >UNABLE to transvert to or from this disk, which irritates the hell out of me.
- >
- >
- >> >3. Does anybody have a similar configuration who can report me about his or
- >> > her experience and problems?
- >>
- >> I'll leave this to others who may have a TT and GCR. But one problem you
- >> may first encounter is the inability of the TT's internal drive to read/write
- >> in Mac 800K format (the GCR does not support 1.44Mb... yet). The easiest fix
- >> is to pick up an external DSDD SF314 for your floppy drive B and use it with
- >> your Mac floppies. That's what I did when the GCR wouldn't work with my
- >> MSTE's internal floppy.
- >>
- > That's good to know! I wondered what was happening with my floppies. Is there
- >really no way to use Mac floppies? Damn.
- >
- >QUESTION: How can I transvert Atari -> Mac? The floppy doesn't work, the internal SCSI
- > doesn't work, Transverter refuses to recognize the (functional) MAC partitions
- > on my external ACSI, ... I think I feel an email to Dave Small coming on ..
- >
- >Mike M.
- >
- I know, this is not a solution to the above problems, but did you know that
- it is possible to use the same floppy on Spectre and Mac without transverting?
-
- First time I did not belief that, but its really simple to do!
-
- Take a Mac that is able to read and write HD-Disks (i.e. has a FDHD Drive),
- start Apple`s utility to convert files to MS-DOS (I don`t know the
- english name of it) and select the menu entry to format a disk.
- Normaly you have only the choice between formating 1.44 Mb or 720 kb MS-DOS
- Disks or 1.44 Mb or 800 kb Apple Disks. If you click onto the disk icon
- you are able to choose 720 kb Apple Disks. If you format
- the Disk in this manner you get a 720kB Apple Disk, that is formated in MFM!
- This disk can be read by any Mac (with FDHD) AND by Spectre 3.0 without any
- additional tool!
- By the way: this formating can be done by Spectre, too. The Mac OS on
- Spectre believes to live on a Mac Plus with a FDHD with only double density.
-
- Have joy
-
- Gerd
-
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