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Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II

Subject: Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II
From: Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:48:39 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:01:00 GMT, "M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>IIRC Mac HFS disk blocks are not the same size as ProDos disk blocks; there
>are a few extra bytes thrown.  I doubt that the 512 byte ProDos blocks will
>be very appealing to the Mac.

ProDOS and HFS both used fixed block sizes of 512 byte blocks.  HFS+
supports variable block sizes but I'm almost positive the smallest
size they can be is 512 bytes and they must contain a number of bytes
that is a power of 2 (ie. 512, 1024, 2048).

-- 
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                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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