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

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

The other option would be to use a Mac to copy the contents of the disk to
an 800K disk.  You'd need an older Mac (but not a Thin or Fat Mac) that can
read 400K disks and write 800K's.
-Paul

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz