Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!husc4!clubok
From: clubok@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Ken "The Snake" Clubok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Reading ST disks on a Mac SE/30
Message-ID: <3620@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 13:46:21 GMT
References: <$'2$16#@rpi.edu>
Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu
Reply-To: clubok@husc4.UUCP (Ken "The Snake" Clubok)
Organization: Harvard University Science Center   Cambridge, MA
Lines: 15

In article <$'2$16#@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>[]
>	Can a Mac SE/30 (with the kind of disk drive that can read Mac
>disks) read Atari ST disks in their normal format, or do the Atari disks
>have to have the same modification (MSDOS bootsector) that they need to
>be readable on an IBM?
>
A Mac SE/30 can't read ST or IBM disks.  It is possible, though, to read
either on a Mac using special software (sorry, I don't remember the name;
ask on the Mac group) and a high-density mac disk drive.  I'm not sure
whether the boot sector matters.

Ken Clubok
clubok@husc4.harvard.edu
clubok@husc4.bitnet