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- From: dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS --> Mac Conversion
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 17:09:35 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley, Agr & Res Economics
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- Message-ID: <16gpcfINNfb6@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <ferch.713776645@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca> ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:
- >In <5472@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500dat@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (David Tulchinsky) writes:
- >
- >>I have been having some problems with converting files
- >>between IBM ATs with 3.5in drives running dos 3.3 and
- >>to a Mac IIci. It seems that the Mac does not recongnize
- >>the AT formatted disk.
-
- >I suspect the problem is that you are assuming the Mac can read an
- >MS-DOS disk without any extra software. It can't.
- >
- >Or, you are trying to read an MS-DOS disk on a Mac that does not have a
- >FDHD (floppy drive high density).
-
- Another possibility has to do with the problem that the IBM drive
- is not smart enough to distinguish between a high density and a
- double density disk while the Mac is. This means that it is very
- easy on the IBM to format disks incorrectly (high density as double
- density and vice versa). If the disk you're having problems with is
- a high density disk (HD on the plastic case) try covering the
- second hole (opposite the write protect hole which has a plastic
- slider) with tape to fool the mac into thinking it is a double
- density disk. And/or go back and make sure that the formatting
- parameters used to format the disk on the AT are correct for the
- type of disk and the type of drive (a 3.5 inch drive on a PC may
- not be a high density drive, although most new ones are).
- --
- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
- dana@are.Berkeley.EDU University of California, Berkeley
-