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From: cacsc083@mx.csun.edu (Paul Wick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre and hard disks
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Date: 11 Dec 90 17:15:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.130839.17906@cs.dal.ca> bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca writes:
>Can someone clarify this?  I can't figure out what the problem is:
> [stuff about Mac formaters deleted]
>This sounds very knowledgable and I'm busily trying to figure it out.  I
>have a Supra 80 with three Atari partitions and two Mac HFS partitions
>which I formatted with GCR 2.65, following the manual instructions.
>If I understand the above postings correctly, this is impossible.
>What's going on?
>-- 
>William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
>P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
>UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
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All that stuff was about preparing a hard disk that can be used on a real
Mac as well as under Spectre emulation. In short: Spectre < 3.0 supports
Mac disk formats from an older System/Finder (probably from when the
Mac first got hard disk support).

An advantage of a compatible disk format would be to share files between
a real Mac and ST with a Syquest 44Mbyte removable cartridge. These files
could be, say, 15 Mbytes of public domain Mac stuff.

The bare Syquest drive with one cartridge is $468 in an add in MacUser.

If you don't need to share a drive, your setup is fine.

Note that the older format Mac scheme of Spectre 2.65 and below has a
maximum `disk' (Mac didn't really have partitions then) size of 32 Mbytes.
Spectre 3.0 uses a format that allows Mac partitions of 256Mbytes.

Paul Wick

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