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Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II

Subject: Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II
From: Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>
Date: 05 Sep 2003 17:34:37 -0700
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russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) writes:
> Tags have been gone for many years.  I don't think anything but 400K
> floppies had them, and MacOS never actually used them.

800K Mac floppies definitely had tags, and both MFS and HFS used them.
Tag support was dropped at some point, but I'm not sure exactly when.
High-density (1440K) floppies as used in an Apple Superdrive (FDHD) do
not have tags.

References:
- Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II
  - From: Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com>
- Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II
  - From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II
  - From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)

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