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Article #22927Re: Spectre GCR: Knowing What To Do
From: Brian Grier
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:50
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:50
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> 4. Spectre Disks/Mac Disks and the Transverter. > To format a Spectre disk you can use the formatter in the Spectre main menu > or use DC Format using the following settings: > 9 Sectors per track, 80 sectors, seek rate of 2 ms (2ms is important!). > - Note: The transverter will NOT read HFS (Mac) disks or HFS (mac) hard > drives. Only regular Spectre disks. Kind of cheesy, huh? Well, I think so > too. Wait until the next version. BTW, I've heard Mac See has plenty of > bugs. Whatch out. Another neat trick that works is format a small partition, under 5 meg, of your HD as an MFS( not HFS ) partition. Transverter can use this HD partition as well as the 400k Spectre format floppy. This turns the tranverter into something really usefull. Brian, WS1S Bell Northern Research Research Triangle Park, NC
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