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From: jt@consl6.esg.dec.com (Jim Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Reading ST disks on a Mac SE/30
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Date: 25 Jul 90 11:27:48 GMT
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Reply-To: kibo@pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry)
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I had the same problem when I abandoned my 1040ST for a Mac SE.  If you're buying
your SE/30 new, it will probably come with the new high density (FDHD) drive in
it.  Apple provides with the drive a utility program (I think it's called Apple
File Transfer) that will allow you to transfer files between the Mac and MSDOS
machines.

I couldn't get the program to recognize a straight ST disk, but if I first
formatted the disk as an MSDOS disk (using the Mac), I found that both machines
could read from and write to it.  Writing an MSDOS boot sector to an existing
ST disk will probably work also.