Re: ProDOS and System 8.1

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Phil Beesley" <pb14@le.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <fO3B7.337$7l1.256817@news.uswest.net>, Bart
> <stopspam@thesource.gs> wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys, but what I meant to say is: IS there a way to read a ProDOS
> > floppy on a 8.1 Mac WITHOUT turning off file sharing?
>
> There is no official fix to the problem from Apple. The inability to
> work with ProDOS floppies persists right through to OS 9.1. Older Macs
> using 400K MFS disks are totally unsupported and 800K HFS system disks
> become unbootable. I just avoid using old floppies with Macs running
> anything after System 7.6.
>
> Phil

Has that something to do with the adoption of HFS+?

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