Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!

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Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!


You can't read the folders on a 400k disk anyway.  All of the files are in
1 window.  There is a shareware app that lets you write to them, but I lost
it.

>Hey, ENOUGH with this Mac/PC disk deal. I have a Mac and a PC. The PC
>can use that program to read Mac 1.4 disks, but not 800K. The Mac has
>software that comes with the OS called PC Exchange. It is TOTALY
>TRANSPARENT, and can read BOTH PC 1.4 AND PC 720K disks!!! Macs can read
>Mac HFS 1.4 and Mac HFS 800K disks. New Macs can read, but not write Mac
>400K disks that were common on older Macs. The new HFS+ with mac OS 8.1
>will allow 4.25 billion allocation blocks for Hard Drives instead of the
>standard 65536 blocks. The new format is better for HD space, but the
>old 400K disks will finaly die under it.
>
>I hope that explains everything.
>
>I can't tell you why or how it all works, but this is how it does work.
>
>Richard Piotter
>richfiles1@hotmail.com
>
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>>
>>Which is what I said.. the 1.4 MB disks share the same low-level
>format, and
>>the 800/720 do not..
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>>Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 12:15 AM
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
>>
>>
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>>>So my machine, with the help of any of a number of programs (including
>a
>>>quite nice emulator, called Executor at www.ardi.com) can read HD (1.4
>MB)
>>>Mac disks, but not the 800k (because it uses a different low level
>>>formatting).
>>It doesn't format differently, the drive is totally different its self.
>It
>>is made to use sectors that IBM disk drives don't know how to use.
>Because
>>of this, the 800k mac drives can't read PC disks, and PCs can't read
>Mac
>>(800k) disks.  The newer macintoshes have the same capibility, but they
>can
>>also read all PC disks, including 1.7MB.
>>
>>---
>>Grant Stockly
>>AppleCyber - http://www.alaska.net/~gussie
>>
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