Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amax troubles, monitors, 400K drives (and Mac-2-Dos) Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 08:38:32 GMT References: <584@tau.sm.luth.se> <2161@convex.UUCP> <1191@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 44 In-reply-to: mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu's message of 18 Oct 89 03:21:29 GMT >>>>> On 18 Oct 89 03:21:29 GMT, mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Carl Mueller) said: carl> Third Item: carl> I've noticed that some of you are trying to use Mac 400K drives with that carl> Mac drive interface. I don't think that it works because the 400K drive carl> requires a timing signal from the computer to set the proper drive speed. carl> The 800K drives don't require this signal. If the device was made for 800K carl> drives (likely), then it probably doesn't support 400K drives. The packaging and documentation for Mac-2-Dos claim that it is compatible with Mac 400K drives, so I don't think your claim is true. After my initial posting a few days ago about my troubles using a 400K Mac drive with Mac-2-Dos, I got the following email message: uzun> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 89 06:50:32 PDT uzun> From: mars.esd.sgi.com!sgi.sgi.com!ames.arc.nasa.gov!ucsd!pnet01.cts.com!uzun (Roger Uzun) uzun> To: crash!tweezers.esd.sgi.com!portuesi uzun> Subject: Re: Mac-2-Dos uzun> The latest mac-2-dos is vesion 1.1a Version 1.0 is nonfunctional uzun> (this comes straight from Central Coast software). That was the uzun> root of all my mac-2-dos problems. Call them for a free upgrade. uzun> -Roger uzun> UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!uzun uzun> ARPA: crash!pnet01!uzun@nosc.mil uzun> INET: uzun@pnet01.cts.com I called Central Coast Software, and they are shipping me a copy of 1.1b (even newer than the 1.1a mentioned above). Even with "nonfunctional" version 1.0, I was able to read 400K disks created on a Macintosh with my 400K drive. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM