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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Spectre Questions
Message-ID: <1991May11.234940.8314@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 03:49:40 GMT
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Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
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In article <48837@ut-emx.uucp>, tdrga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Todd Drga) writes:
> [ do syquest 44mb cartridges for Macs work on the ST? ]
>
>I would think that the disk formats would be different, since Apple tends to
>want to keep thinks like that to themselves, but if Syquest has a proprietary
>format that they use for their drive, it seems as if that wouldn't get in the 
>way. 
>

I know that Dave Small's Spectre now supports the Syquest 44mb cartridges.
Thus, if you are in Spectre mode, you can use them.  I would think it very 
unlikely that the disks would work while in ST mode, as the Mac hard disk 
protocol is just as weird at their floppy protocol.   

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