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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Reading ST disks on a Mac SE/30
Message-ID: <1903.26adbcb8@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 20:37:27 GMT
References: <$'2$16#@rpi.edu> <3620@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <3620@husc6.harvard.edu>, clubok@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Ken "The Snake" Clubok) writes:
> In article <$'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.
> 
If you have the high density Mac drive, you can get a program called Dayna 
Dos Mounter, which will allow you to mount any MS-DOS disk right onto the 
desktop, and you can use it just like a Mac disk. But it does require a 
boot sector. (If you stick a regular Atari disk in the drive, you get the 
infamous, "This disk is unreadable, do you want to initialize it?")

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