Re: Reading older Mac (400K) disks on an Apple IIGS

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

Giorgio Ungarelli <giorgio@ungarelli.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to read MFS formatted diskettes on an Apple IIGS
> running GS/OS 6.0.1 (or, to put it another way, is there an MFS driver
> available for download from the Internet)?

Not for GS/OS.

The operating system will recognise an MFS disk and tell you that you
need an MFS file system translator to read it, but that is it.  No such
FST was ever written by Apple, and none is ever likely to materialise.

It is possible that someone might have written a GS/OS utility program
which provides direct access to an MFS volume, but I haven't heard of
one.

There is a ProDOS-8 utility program which can copy files off an MFS
disk, though it won't handle resource forks.  The name "MacTransGS"
comes to mind.

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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz