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From: miyamoto@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (Carleton A. Y. Miyamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MAC DISKS IN WINDOWS?
Date: 17 May 1993 04:41:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1t6efv$1pj@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> gel@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Gilles KHOUZAM) writes:
>>Macsee.zip on ftp.cica.indiana.edu is supposed to read and write Mac disks.  
>>I've never tried it, though.  Good luck
>
>I just tried it, but I can't say that it works, 'cause it doesn't read 800K
>disks, it only reads 1.44Mb. If there a program that does read 800K disks,
>please let me know.

I'm not sure that this is possible due to the way the Mac writes the 800k
disk.  I think the way the sectors are set up are different enough that a
PC 3.5" can't read it.  This is a hardware problem which software cannot
correct.  Hope this helps and correct me if I'm wrong.


