#Amiga/Mac Drives
08-Dec-89 20:58:07
Sb: #77814-#Amiga/Mac Drives
Fm: Steven Bennett 70046,441
To: Matthew Grossman 73367,3051
A standard Amiga floppy drive is incapable of reading Mac 800K floppies. This
is because the Mac uses a weird scheme which varies the speed of the floppy
rotation depending upon which track you are reading/writing. The Amiga drive
runs at a fixed speed, so it is incapable of reading most of the Mac disk. (It
is possible to read some tracks, and A-Max uses this fact for their
mini-transfer disks to allow transfer of about 170K at a time…)
–>Steve Bennett