Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
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Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
if nobody minds me saying, as a linux user i can read mac 1.44, all of the
FATs, NTFS, OS/2, NFS, AIX, Amoeba, BSD/386, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, XENIX, and
Minix (hope i didn't forget anything..), and it's all built into my OS
with no stripware utilities. i'm sure this relates to TI-hardware somehow,
so be easy on the bashing :)
> 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
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>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!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>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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> Grant Stockly
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