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From article <817@ulogic.UUCP>, by hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman):
> 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
> 
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> "If we do not succeed, we risk failure."			-D. Quayle


GIGO.
Mac disks are formatted just like MS-DOS disks except that density varies
per track on Mac disks. In early Macs the disk speed was varied, but 800k
and 1.44m discs accomplish this by varing the data read/write stream.

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