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In article 13078@watserv1.waterloo.edu, ec333way@steam.uwaterloo.ca (Winter92
BEACON ec333 account) writes:
>My question is this: Can I hook a CD-ROM up to my ST that will AT LEAST
>work with the mac? It doesn't necessarily have to do anything useful with
>an ST, as long as it acts like a normal mac cd-rom..
>Would I need a megatalk board for this or will my ICD adapter be good enough?

You will need the megatalk board from Gadgets by Small.

>Also, I've heard that the Mac 1.44 meg disks are identical to IBM 1.44's..
>Is this true? Could I, in theory, take a 1.44 meg Mac disk to my PC, read the
>1.44 disk onto hard drive, re-write to an 800k and move to my ST? That would
>be nice as well.. (I assume that copying files from the ST to a Spectre
>partition IS possible?)..
>
Uh, the physical floppies ARE the same but the formats are not.  A Mac with a SuperDrive 1.44 can read and write to PC and ST disks (I do this almost every
day) but not the other way around.  The ST can read and format Mac disks, of
course, when using the Spectre GCR.  And yes, you may copy files from an ST
partition to a Spectre partition but it's not all that straightforward.  You
must keep in mind that the Spectre partition is hidden from the ST operating
system.  So to copy a file from ST to Spectre partition, you would first copy
the file to a floppy using the Transverter utility (comes with SPectre) or
some similar utitlity, then boot Spectre, then copy the file from the floppy
to your SPectre partition.  Convoluted, perhaps, but it works.

-Hutch-

around.
>
>-- 
>Mattias Hembruch
>mghembruch@electrical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
>or ec333way@sail.uwaterloo.ca



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