pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) (12/12/90)
From article <1990Dec11.130839.17906@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert): > Can someone clarify this? I can't figure out what the problem is: Deleted: a quoted discussion of how to get Spectre AND Mac readable Syquests, or other removeable hard disks, so that you can just pop them in to either machine. Do I get the 64K dollars?? 8-) 8-) > This sounds very knowledgable and I'm busily trying to figure it out. I > have a Supra 80 with three Atari partitions and two Mac HFS partitions > which I formatted with GCR 2.65, following the manual instructions. > If I understand the above postings correctly, this is impossible. Lucky you; I trashed 2 or more of my 6.05 system disks while getting my floppies to read/write GCR (crash - reboot, floppy all screwed). I have only myself to blame, I didn't check to see if I could copy GCR disks with 1 working drive under Spectre itself - of course you can (Darn)! New owners, make sure you back up your system disks in Spectre (check under "FLOPPIES") BEFORE you risk trying to boot up for real - if a disk isn't "ejected", it is MUNGED!!! This *seems* to be true of write protected disks too, in any case, use f1(A), f2(B) to get Spectre to recognize the insertion of a write protected disk. As an aside, I consider the incomplete nature of the auto disk insertion feature to be a bug - please fix in 3.0 guys (just check the write protect line while the disk is sliding in or out <use the vbi or something similar> - non tricky drives will indicate a second or so of no of write protection, and mods for the "tricky" drives are usually trivial, I've done it on my Teac). At least I'm almost ready, the floppies do test out ok now. However, the June '90 article "Fixing NEC Mechanisms!" in Current Notes is incorrect for Nec 1035 mechanisms - short L3, *NOT* L7. Oh well, I still have to clear off the last partition on my hard disk for Spectre anyway 8-(. > What's going on? Just a problem swaping Syquests between an ST and a Mac I believe. > -- > William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography > P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 > UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill > BITNET=bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac InterNet=bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca