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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2004 comp.os.386bsd.development:1313 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1258 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!elm.circa.ufl.edu!araw From: araw@elm.circa.ufl.edu (Robert Moser) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD? Date: 16 Oct 1993 06:44:32 GMT Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville Lines: 20 Message-ID: <29o58gINN2gb@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elm.circa.ufl.edu In article <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: [material deleted] >Would you want to read all MAC disks, or only the ones compatible with IBM >hardware? > >If the latter, then you are limited to the 800k disks, and the answer is >"not yet, but the FS specs should be available from apple.com for their FS". You must mean the high density disks (1.44MB). I am a Mac developer (at work, a linuxer at home) and have the AccessPC extension on my mac. Only the high density drive can be used, and will handle high and low density PC format or Mac format. The low density drive (800K) only reads and writes mac format. PC drives can be made to read high density MAC disks, but not low density, because the low density uses a proprietary speed change to increase the disk capacity (remember the original macs, the disks were very noisy, and the different speeds were very obvious as the head moved over the disk surface.). ARAW