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From: greyham@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 68K minix
Message-ID: <65@ausonics.OZ>
Date: 3 Nov 88 22:11:06 GMT
References: <1600@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article <1600@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) says:
> I am not much of a Macintosh expert, but the Atari disks are standard 720K
> 3.5 inch disks.  If you take the program readfs, compile it on the macintosh
> with any C compiler, you should be able to insert an Atari diskette and
> read the MINIX file system from it, since readfs can handle the 3.5 inch
> disks (actually, it doesn't know or care; it just sees a linear list of
> blocks).  I would think this approach should be reasonable. 

As I understand it, The Mac uses a variable speed drive to pack as much on
a 3 1/2" disk as everyone else can pack on using normal drives. Apparently
this is a major problem in getting it to read/write anything but Mac disks.
Anyone know more about this? Is there a program to read/write other format
disks (say, IBM pc 720k?); if it were possible, someone would have done it by
now.
			Greyham
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