Re: Help! Trying to Read Old 5.25" Apple IIc Floppy!

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <43n2qc$cbh@xenon.brooks.af.mil>,
Randy Thompson  <thompson@bigbux.brooks.af.mil> wrote:
>At my urging, a friend just bought a new Macintosh
>to replace his old Apple IIc.  He would like to transfer
>the files on the 5.25" disks over to the hard drive 
>on the new machine.  I'm trying to help him.

>Here's what I have to work with:

>   A Centris 650 Macintosh running system 7.1(Mine)  
>   A Performa 6200 running system 7.5 (His)
>   A DaynaFile 5.25" Floppy Drive (Borrowed From Work)

   Ok, is this drive designed to read IBM PC disks? (360K, 1.2MB, etc)
If so, it won't read Apple II 140K disks. The problem is that Apple
and IBM disks use totally different recording schemes, and drives that
use one have to go through a ton of hoops to read them. 

   If the drive doesn't specifically support 140K disks, you're out of
luck. Even if it does, reading in non-ProDOS disks on it will be iffy
at best from the Mac's side.

Nathan Mates
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