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- From: grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier)
- Subject: Re: Spectre GCR: Knowing What To Do
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:50:25 GMT
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- > 4. Spectre Disks/Mac Disks and the Transverter.
-
- > To format a Spectre disk you can use the formatter in the Spectre main menu
- > or use DC Format using the following settings:
- > 9 Sectors per track, 80 sectors, seek rate of 2 ms (2ms is important!).
-
- > - Note: The transverter will NOT read HFS (Mac) disks or HFS (mac) hard
- > drives. Only regular Spectre disks. Kind of cheesy, huh? Well, I think so
- > too. Wait until the next version. BTW, I've heard Mac See has plenty of
- > bugs. Whatch out.
-
- Another neat trick that works is format a small partition, under 5 meg,
- of your HD as an MFS( not HFS ) partition. Transverter can use this HD
- partition as well as the 400k Spectre format floppy. This turns the
- tranverter into something really usefull.
-
- Brian, WS1S
- Bell Northern Research
- Research Triangle Park, NC
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