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From: wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Deluxe Board 5.4; PC-MAC disk interface
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.235052.15411@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 23:50:52 GMT
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Reply-To: wbonner@yoda.UUCP (Wim Bonner)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <80330011@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:
>
>>I have a PC and have the need to read and write files to/from a MAC. I
>>have come across the Deluxe Option Board 5.4, which purports to allow
>>the 1.44M 3.5" PC disk to read/format/write a MAC disk. The board is
>>inserted between the drive and drive controller.  To use the drive as a
>>MAC, an `m' is inserted before the DOS command - `mformat' formats the
>>disk in MAC format, etc.
>
>Let me add one more question. What does this hardware do, anyway? What
>exactly is the difference between a MAC disk and a PC disk? Can a PC
>disk drive be used in a MAC, or are the drives manufactured differently?
>
>thanks,
>
>tom

I have one of these boards in my XT.  It takes the floppy disk cable from
your standard floppy controller, and then cables to your floppy drives.

It reads and writes Mac disks just fine.  you have to use a special program
to do anything with a mac disk, run MCOPY for a copy command and a bunch
if similar commands, but it works pretty well.

Wim.
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