Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <4Gydne_yUJe19YWiXTWJjQ@comcast.com>,
Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>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. ;-)

This shouldn't have been an issue with creating disks for your 386, but if
you were moving data on 5.25" DD floppies between an XT (with a DD drive)
and something newer (with a HD drive), you ran into a problem with the head
width of the high-density drive being half that of the double-density drive. 
Formatting/writing to a DD disk in a HD drive was an iffy proposition if you
need to read the disk in a DD drive...maybe it'd work, or maybe it wouldn't.

(When I needed to make a boot floppy for my PC/XT so I could load DR DOS
onto it, I yanked its floppy drive out and hooked it up to whatever I was
running at the time (probably a K6-2 or K6-III box) to write some disks. 
Nowadays, I can just plug it into the network and pull files off of anything
that speaks SMB: the Windows boxen, the Linux server, or maybe even the G3. 
(There's some amount of SMB support in Mac OS X.))

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