Re: Any tricks to get mac to read AMIGA disks?

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From: Matt Dillon
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 05:12

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	If the Mac disk controller has the ability to read raw transitions,
I don't see why you couldn't read an Amiga disk.  Amiga disks are standard
MFM encoded, but since the Amiga track buffers disk I/O, it doesn't
need to put any spacing between sectors and can squeeze an extra sector on
each track. (this is why Amiga disks are 880K and Mac/Ibm disks are 800K).

					-Matt

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