Re: Apple Disk Drives

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

MFS - Mac File System was the original file system
sported on the Macintosh for the 128K and Fat Mac.
The Mac Plus introduced the HFS system.  I don't
believe you can format a MFS disk on IIgs and why
would you want to??  It only worked with Mac
Finder Version 1.0.  If I recall right, it didn't support
file sub directories that is why they introduced
Hierarchial File System or HFS.  Similar to the differences
between DOS 3.3 and Pro-DOS.

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"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Both the Apple 3.5 Drive and UniDisk 3.5 will work with 400 KB and 800
> > KB 3.5" disks: single or double sided respectively, double density in
> > both cases, using Apple's GCR data coding scheme and variable rotation
> > speeds, physically compatible with 400K and 800K disks on the Mac (you
> > just need software to support the Mac's file system, which is MFS for
> > 400K disks, HFS for 800K disks).
>
> That's something that I didn't know. How do I format 400K or MFS on my GS
or
> IIc, can't remember ever seing that option in System 6, or is it just on a
> Mac ?
>
> Not that I need it yet, just courious to know how in case I ever get any
old
> 400K stuff.
>
> Mark
>
>