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- From: mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris)
- Subject: Re: Spectre GCR: Knowing What To Do
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125233.29198@news.unige.ch>
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- Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
- References: <1993Jan21.011030.23808@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <C17wC1.CEA@news.rich.bnr.ca> <1201@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:52:33 GMT
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- In article <1201@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko) writes:
- > In article <C17wC1.CEA@news.rich.bnr.ca> grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes:
- > >
- > >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.
- >
- > Forgive me if I answer my own question, but how do you format a HD
- > partition in MFS mode? Going to the format option under Spectre 2.65,
- > thr MFS box is greyed-out. Was this option added later (in say 3.0) or
- > is something just screwy with my setup?
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- The MFS option is greyed out if your partition is too big - you must
- _first_ prepare your 4ish meg. TOS partition, _then_ go to Spectre.
- Transverting to hard disk is great. But I STILL do not understand why
- I could transvert to my MFS partition on my Mega ST, but cannot on my TT :-(
-
- Mike Morris
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