Re: Macs and GS disks

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

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