Re: Help with Macs

Anand Kumria (akumria@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 24 Aug 1995 21:06:12 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Gargamel wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Anthony Langsworth wrote:
>
> > The problem with Mac drives is that they are variable speed drives. As a
> > result, IBM PC fixed speed drives cannot read their 800K format. I have a
> > program called clink that is meant to be able to read Mac 1.44Ms but I've
> > never really tried it.
>
> I have been both using Mac floppies on IBM based PC and vice versa for
> roughly 4 years now ... I have not had any problems reading the disks.
> My only problem has been that my software did not support the Mac file
> format for that particular application... and thats not a hardware thing!

Yes that is okay ... but without replacing the Floppy Controller Chip
(FCC) it is technically impossible to read an 800k Macintosh disk with an
IBM PC drive! 1.44Mb are fine -- Apple used to have IBM manufactured
drives in their machines, when they introduced 1.44Mb size format.

Anand.