mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) (04/12/91)
In article <80330020@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>, knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:
%% Hi, does any body know if there is a way to read a macintosh diskette from a PC ?
%% One method is to buy the Deluxe Option Board. This half-height board is
%% inserted between the Floppy controller and a 3.5" 1.44-Meg floppy drive.
%% [...]
%% One warning; the board is only guaranteed to work for certain drives
%% such as the TEAK. The PC drive must be 1.44Meg, and the MAC disk density
%% can only be 400K or 800K. It costs about $115 mail order. It's one of
%% the best $115 I've ever spent.
%%
%% As an added plus, the product also allows to copy disks that have been
%% copy protected, and do direct bit scanning and editing of (PC) disks.
Don't be so pessimistic !
I don't own the board, but have spent some time in a store reading the
documentation (v5.4):
- The manual explicitely states that nearby all 720Kb drives can be used.
Restrictions are only on 1.44 Mb brands. I remeber seeing Mitsubishi and
Mitsumi (my brand :) as not compatibles. TEAC (not TEAK) is compatible.
- The board supports 5.25" drives, both 360 Kb and 1.2 Mb. It handles copy
protection on 360 Kb only. CPS says they will examine the possibility of
supporting high-density copy protection in the future.
I didn't found anything about reading high density Mac diskettes. I wonder
if they couldn't be read with the standard controller.
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Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
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