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Article #23172Re: Spectre GCR: Knowing What To Do
From: michel morris
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:52
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:52
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In article <1201@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko) writes: > In article <C17wC1.CEA@news.rich.bnr.ca> grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes: > > > >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. > > Forgive me if I answer my own question, but how do you format a HD > partition in MFS mode? Going to the format option under Spectre 2.65, > thr MFS box is greyed-out. Was this option added later (in say 3.0) or > is something just screwy with my setup? The MFS option is greyed out if your partition is too big - you must _first_ prepare your 4ish meg. TOS partition, _then_ go to Spectre. Transverting to hard disk is great. But I STILL do not understand why I could transvert to my MFS partition on my Mega ST, but cannot on my TT :-( Mike Morris
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!scsing.switch.ch!news.unige.ch!medsun.unige.ch!mike From: mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris) Subject: Re: Spectre GCR: Knowing What To Do Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125233.29198@news.unige.ch> Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland References: <1993Jan21.011030.23808@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <C17wC1.CEA@news.rich.bnr.ca> <1201@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:52:33 GMT Lines: 19