Re: Mac Formatted (HFS) Disks on Apple2gs

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> YB Teacher (ybteacher@aol.com) wrote:
> : Far as I know, Mac HFS only reads 800k mac floppies, at least that's all I
> : have been able to get it to do.
> 
> HFS FST reads my 25 MB partition just fine.  Dunno what's wrong with your
> machine.  Maybe a clean reinstall of the system software would fix the
> problem.

I suspect "YB Teacher" was trying to read high density Macintosh 3.5"
disks.

This will not work unless you have a disk drive and controller card
which can support high density disks.  The standard IIgs 3.5" drive does
not, and neither does the built-in disk controller.

The HFS FST certainly works fine with 1.44MB (high density) disks as
long as you have the right hardware.

See the comp.sys.apple2 FAQ for further details about 3.5" drive
alternatives.

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