Re: Macs and GS disks

[noone@nowhere.net]

Roy:
My IIgs hates Win95 long file name touched diskettes.  Are you sure your
unreadable disk has no annomalies on it?  I'd suggest you copy the files
off to a freshly formattted disk, then try that in your Mac.

Thankx,
Ed

Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote:
> 
> Cturley2 wrote:
> 
> > Roy asked:
> > <<Short question, short answer. Can a Mac read a GS disk in a Mac 800K
> > drive? If so, what do I need to get that to happen?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Roy>>
> >
> > It can read an 800k ProDOS disk or a 1.4 MB ProDOS disk.  The Mac needs to be
> > in the 68k series or the early PPC models for best read results and for the Mac
> > to recognise it on it's desktop.
> >
> > With a Mac PPC and either B2TR or Gus!  (IIgs emulators)  you can read or
> > format or run the disk contents - i.e. programs.
> >
> > Hope that answers your question completely.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> 
> Thank you Tom.
> 
> Here's the long version. Classic II plus an Apple 3.5 (800K) external drive. The
> internal drive is reading my PC formatted 1.4 disk from which I wish to copy files
> to a ProDOS 800K disk in the external drive. BUT, when I put the ProDOS disk in, I
> got a unreadable, must be initialized message. Am I missing something?
> 
> Roy