[comp.sys.ibm.pc] can PC format floppy like Apple IIe?

holly@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joe Hollingsworth) (09/22/89)

Can a PC format a disk such that an Apple IIe can read it under ProDos?

What I'd like to do is format a 5.25" (using Apple IIe ProDos format) 
on my PC, copy some files to the 5.25" disk from my hard drive and then
walk over to my IIe and plug it in.

Is this possible?
If so can someone tell me how, or better yet point me to the software
that does it.

Thanks in advance,

Joe
(PS I know this sound screwy, but it would be very convenient.)

Joe Hollingsworth  Computer and Information Science @ OSU
holly@cis.ohio-state.edu  or ...!{att,pyramid,killer}!cis.ohio-state.edu!holly

wb8foz@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (09/23/89)

> Article <61890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> From: holly@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joe Hollingsworth)

# 
# Can a PC format a disk such that an Apple IIe can read it under ProDos?
# 
# What I'd like to do is format a 5.25" (using Apple IIe ProDos format) 
# on my PC, copy some files to the 5.25" disk from my hard drive and then
# walk over to my IIe and plug it in.
Not without mAJOR mAGIC.
PCs use a disk controller chip, typically made by Western
Digital. Apples use a mostly software solution called the IWZ
for Integrated Woz Machine. It writes in some manner
completely alien to the WD.
There have been add-on boards from time to time. None seem to
last long in the market place. I guess there is not a lot of
demand. 
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