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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!neil
  2. From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  4. Subject: Mac HD Disks
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep15.103311.568@cs.hw.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 15 Sep 92 10:33:11 GMT
  7. Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
  8. Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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  12. It's true! A Mac High Density disk is formatted MFM just like PC and Atari
  13. HD disks. I just tried reading a Mac HD disk using Norton Disk Editor on a
  14. PC and although I couldn't fathom the file system the sectors were readable
  15. and the filenames were there. This could mean good news for Spectre running
  16. on Atari's with HD drives. No need for GCR. I don't see why we couldn't
  17. end up with a 'Mac Mounter' for our machines. Maybe a MiNT loadable file
  18. system too.
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  21. ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own !
  22. ! Neil Forsyth                                                               !
  23. ! Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering                         !
  24. ! Heriot-Watt University                                                     !
  25. ! Edinburgh, Scotland                                                        !
  26. ! United Kingdom            Email: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs, ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil !
  27. ! "'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer no" - Monty Python     !
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