| From: | Adam Eccleshall |
| Date: | 1 Mar 2001 at 22:06:07 |
| Subject: | Re: MAC Floppies |
Hiya,
Dauber wrote:
> --- Nick Knight <nick.knight@amiga01.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > I was wondering how using OS 3.9 I can format a MAC disk ?
> You need Cross MAC and a high-density disk drive. Better yet, use
> CrossDOS and just use an IBM-compatible disk if you can't do Mac
> formatting; a Mac should be able to read an IBM disk.
Yeah, but unless you have a Fat95 compatible floppy filesystem, the file
names al get badly truncated, and the MS-DOS format can't handle some of
the characters used in Mac file names. You also lose the resource forks
of any files saved...
CrossMac is a much better option, or I think there's a boards available
to allow you to connect an old Mac 800k drive (uses standard DD disks,
but like the Amiga drive, needs special control hardware).
C'ya
Adam
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