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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac Emulator, what to buy?
Summary: How well will it work with Adaptec controller?
Message-ID: <1188@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 03:05:10 GMT
References: <2309@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <9003040502.AA28710@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
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In article <9003040502.AA28710@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>, boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
> 
>    Dave Small's GCR is probably the way to go, since it is the only one I know
>    of that reads Mac disks directly.  For that matter, I think Aladin has gone
>    out of business, which only leaves the Magic Sac (old Dave Small hack), 
>    Spectre 128 (much better Dave Small hack, everything the GCR is without the
>    disk compatabiliy), and the GCR.  Also, Magic Sac is no longer supported
>    by Dave (a company change).
> 

	I've got an Adaptec controller / 65meg RLL setup which I'd like to
use for Spectre GCR if/when I buy it.  The ICD host adaptor tells me that
because the Adaptec uses FAT bad-sector mapping rather than SCSI, I shouldn't
use it with Spectre.  But I do have a few error-free partitions.  Can I use
Spectre with these partitions?
	A more broad question is, what goes wrong when you have a bad sector
on your hard disk?  Surely there's a Macintosh equivalent of mapping out bad
sectors to a FAT table that can be done.


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