Re: ProDOS driver for Linux 2.4.x

[Declan Macleoid <declan_macleoid@hotmail.com>]

I just tried mounting an 800K HFS floppy on my PPC 7500 running LinuxPPC Q1
-- no good.  It didn't believe me....  Although, while I'm not the guy to do
it, I'll bet someone could write a driver to read 800k floppies.  They work
just fine under MAC OS 8.6 so I know the hardware is capable....

> From: "ralmin" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au>
> Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:10:28 GMT
> Subject: Re: ProDOS driver for Linux 2.4.x
> 
>>>> Please say it works on 800k floppies...
>>> 
>>> It works on 800k floppies if you can get linux to read them :-)
>> 
>> You took the words right out of my mouth!  I wish it could read those,
>> but I'm not a hardware guy. :-/
> 
> It's not possible with standard PC hardware. But if you get an image of the
> disk to the Linux PC somehow then it will read those using your driver.
> 
> I wonder whether any of the Mac versions of Linux can read 800k disks?
> 
> Ralmin.
> 
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