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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMAX: Mac Emulator
Message-ID: <1181@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 16:53:59 GMT
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In article <1733@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (J.Cisek) writes:
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>Can you take a Mac disk and stick it into an Amiga drive  (under  AMAX)?
	Sure, if you are using two 3.5" drives.  I wouldn't recommend
	attempting to insert a 5.25" disk into a 3.5" drive though...

Ok, ok, sorry, couldn't resist.  Actually you can, but you would only be
able to read part of the Macintosh disk.  This is due to the difference
in the way the disk drives operate (The Amiga uses MFM, and the Mac uses
GCR).  What it boils down to is that one type of drive alters it's speed
when accessing different sections of the disk (GCR), so the other drive
(MFM) can only read the data in a specific section.


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