Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> I thought I read something here a while back suggesting that the floppy
> drives used in most PowerPC-based Macs were different in some way that
made
> them less reliable when working with 800K disks.  If you're buying a cheap
> older Mac for purposes of moving data between your Apple IIs and the rest
of
> the world, you might be better off buying a Quadra or other 68K Mac
instead.
> (I haven't personally verified this problem with my beige G3 because Mac
OS
> X doesn't support the built-in floppy drive, but I know my Quadra 610 will
> format & write disks that my IIGS can read.)

My PowerMac 7100 has a little trouble with writing images
to disk with DiskCopy, but DiskDup+ solves that problem.
Also, if I preformat them on the GS, even though it will write
over the entire disk, they seem to work better. Similarly on the
PC side, if I format a 1.44 on the GS with MUG first, then write
files to them on the PC, there are also better results. This is not
anything strange. I had to do the same thing back when I transferred
files from the 586 ( a 486 hot chip ) to my 8088 or 386, I had to
format the disks on the older machine first then they worked fine
after writing to them on the more advanced machine. If there is a
reasonable explanation for this, I'm all ears. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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