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Article #3608Re: How to read MAC disks on PC?
From: Richard M. Hartman
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:44
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:44
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PC disks are formatted in concentric circles. Mac disks are formatted in a spiral (like your old black vinyl records). (This is what let Macs put 800k on a floppy that the PC could only get 720k on.) The Mac drive (actually the superdrive) can be controlled to read concentric-formatted disks. I do not believe that there is a way to control the standard pc drives to read spiral-formatted disks. There may be special hardware out there that can do it. Good luck. -Richard Hartman hartman@ulogic.COM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "If we do not succeed, we risk failure." -D. Quayle
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!ulogic!hartman From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: How to read MAC disks on PC? Message-ID: <817@ulogic.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 93 21:44:20 GMT References: <1993Jan5.180549.21159@mcs.drexel.edu> Organization: negligable Lines: 15