Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!ukma!nrl-cmf!mailrus!ncar!tank!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 68K minix Message-ID: <12888@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Nov 88 00:46:35 GMT References: <5089@louie.udel.EDU> <1600@ast.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 As quoted from <1600@ast.cs.vu.nl> by ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum): +--------------- | 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. +--------------- Alas, not true unless one is lucky enough to have a IIx. The Macintosh floppy controller only reads and writes the so-called "Woz format" with variable motor speeds in 5 bands of tracks. The IIx has a hybrid controller which can read and write standard fixed-speed-motor disks. (The effect of the speed change is that the density of a standard floppy gets higher the closer the heads get to the motor spindle; this is not true (or at least not true enough) of Mac disks.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.