ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) (12/15/90)
Now I know there is an INIT that allows you to mount DOS formatted floppies, and you can use Apple File Exchange to read files from DOS floppies as well, but my question is whether there is anything for those poor souls using a DOS machine which will enable them to read data from a Macintosh formatted disk?
typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins) (12/17/90)
ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) writes: >Now I know there is an INIT that allows you to mount DOS formatted >floppies, and you can use Apple File Exchange to read files from DOS >floppies as well, but my question is whether there is anything for >those poor souls using a DOS machine which will enable them to read >data from a Macintosh formatted disk? Answer: Yes. Apparently the Copy II PC board and software will allow a 1.44Mb drive to read Mac 800k (& 1.2Mb??) disks on a PC. So a friend tells me who has done this (I saw him do it!), altho' I don't know the techie details. -- John Wilkins, Manager, Publishing & Advertising, Monash University Melbourne, Australia - Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au Disclaimer: IF Standard(disclaimer) THEN Applies(disclaimer) ELSIF Nonstandard(disclaimer) THEN PROBABLY (Applies(disclaimer)) ENDIF
c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (12/17/90)
In article <1990Dec17.024659.27475@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins) writes: >ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) writes: >> Is there a way to read mac floppies on (shudder, gasp, choke, puke...) IBM? >Answer: Yes. Apparently the Copy II PC board and software will allow >a 1.44Mb drive to read Mac 800k (& 1.2Mb??) disks on a PC. So a friend ^^^^^^^ >tells me who has done this (I saw him do it!), altho' I don't know >the techie details. Close. The Mac high density floppies are 1.40 MB. Interesting how they couldn't fit an extra .04 MB on the newer format. I wonder how stuff like tracks per inch, tracks on disk, sectors per track, track/data density, etc. compares between the Mac 1.40 SuperDrives and the (shudder) IBM 1.44 drives. Anyone got any answers? ______________________________________________________________________________ Donald Burr, Univ of California, Berkeley | "I have a seperate mail-address INTERNET: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.edu | for flames and other such nega- or: 72540.3071@compuserve.COM | tive msgs; it's called /dev/null."
marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) (12/17/90)
In article <9830@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Donald Burr) writes: >In article <1990Dec17.024659.27475@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins) writes: >>ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) writes: >>> Is there a way to read mac floppies on (shudder, gasp, choke, puke...) IBM? >>Answer: Yes. Apparently the Copy II PC board and software will allow >>a 1.44Mb drive to read Mac 800k (& 1.2Mb??) disks on a PC. So a friend > ^^^^^^^ >>tells me who has done this (I saw him do it!), altho' I don't know >>the techie details. > > >Close. The Mac high density floppies are 1.40 MB. Interesting how they >couldn't fit an extra .04 MB on the newer format. I wonder how stuff >like tracks per inch, tracks on disk, sectors per track, track/data density, >etc. compares between the Mac 1.40 SuperDrives and the (shudder) IBM 1.44 >drives. Anyone got any answers? > My disk has 1440K--after formatting and putting the file system on, it has 1416K free (just like an "800K" disk has 780K free after the file system is on). On a side note Kennect (who makes the Rapport product) gets 2.4 meg on the high density floppies by combining the GCR and MFM formatting methods using regular high density drives. Mark -- --------------------------------- Mark Dawson Service Diagnostic Engineering AppleLink: Dawson.M Apple says what it says; I say what I say. We're different ---------------------------------
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (12/17/90)
In article <9830@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Donald Burr) writes: > >Close. The Mac high density floppies are 1.40 MB. Interesting how they >couldn't fit an extra .04 MB on the newer format. I wonder how stuff >like tracks per inch, tracks on disk, sectors per track, track/data density, >etc. compares between the Mac 1.40 SuperDrives and the (shudder) IBM 1.44 >drives. Anyone got any answers? This doesn't make sense-- the SuperDrive format and the MS-DOS format are identical: Capacity TSS SD # of # of # of Format in blocks valid or DD Sides Sectors Tracks 1440K MFM(2,3) 2880 yes DD 2 18 80 -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
mdunn@reed.UUCP (Marvin Dunn) (12/18/90)
Central Point makes a board called the Deluxe Option Board. Placed in a DOS machine with a 3 1/2 inch drive it will format, copy, read, and write Macintosh disks. It lists for about $150 meaning it should be available for about $105-110. I don't know of any translators, however, on the DOS side like MacLinkPlus. In order words, the Deluxe Option Board only allows you to move ASCII files back and forth. -- Marv Dunn, Computer User Services Reed College mdunn@reed.bitnet tektronix!reed!mdunn