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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Message-ID: <kehLKLm00VAtEN=ZJb@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:33:11 -0400
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: A PC floppy drive that can read Mac disks
- In-Reply-To: <5312@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- References: <5312@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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- peturp@rhi.hi.is (Petur Petursson) writes:
- > I am looking for a drive that can read both 800k and HD disks without
- > running a seperate application on the PC.
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- I wish I had telepathic powers...
-
- seriously, as far as I know this is nearly impossible, unless you have
- a very specialized drive controller. there are several programs (some
- pd) that will read the files on the mac disk and translate them to pc
- files on a hard disk, but without software or a controller, the fact
- is that the two formats are physically and logically different...
-