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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange problem
Message-ID: <1762@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:03:25 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY
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Mihran Tuceryan <tuceryan@bombay.cps.msu.EDU> writes:

	Last week I asked for help about reading MS-DOS files using
	Apple File Exchange software. Thanks for all the replies I
	received which were very helpful.

	[ ... ]

	2. Get an external floppy drive with the ability to read
	   high-density disks and MS-DOS formats. If you want one that
	   will work without the ROM upgrade, it needs to have a SCSI
	   interface. There were a number of names that came up often:

		Rapport Drive 2.4

		[ ... ]

	I called some of these places up to find out more about them
	and it turns out that some of them can only read high density
	or MS-DOS format. Apparently, they cannot handle the regular
	low density disks.

Maybe I didn't see your posting, and maybe I don't understand what you
mean, but when you say "regular low density" do you mean 720k 3.5"
MS-DOS disks?  If you do, then I hafta tell you that I use them all the
time on my Rapport Drive 2.4 ... it reads/writes MS-DOS 720k, 1.2Mb, &
1.44Mb formats as well as Mac 800k (no 400k), 1.4M, and ProDOS disks,
as well as a proprietary 2.4Mb format.  Is there another (smaller than
720k) MS-DOS format?

/jordan