[Plug] Re: [OT] Re: Can I mount a Mac disk?

[tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com]

FWIW, I read/write MAC disks often in PCs using Windoz' Conversions Plus.
The incompatible format was with the older, single density MAC disks. For
the older format I have a special (old) add on card. BTW, there's gotta be
a port of a MAC filesystem driver somewhere for Linux.
Tom Burba
U.S. Vision, Inc.
tburba@usvision.com
609-228-1000




glynn@sensei.co.uk on 06/03/99 08:57:00 AM

To:   linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
cc:    (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
Subject:  Re: [OT] Re: Can I mount a Mac disk?





Kendall Lister wrote:
> > } > maybe... If there was a filesystem driver for it. You can't mount
or
> > } > use High-density mac disks in a PC because the PC's diskdrive can't
> > } > handle the funny format the disks are in.
> > }              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > } Is this some new technical term? Or are you just narrow-minded?
> >
> > Before you flame you should check your sources.
>
> It's not an issue of technical details. I know that a different format is
> used - I was flaming over the derisive reference to their "funny"
> format... the clear implication being that it is somehow inferior or
> non-standard. Being non-PC clone is not to be inherently inferior.
It's not about `being non-PC clone'. The poster was presumably
referring to the fact that the original[1] Mac disks can't be read in
a normal[2] drive, regardless of which disk controller or software is
used to read them.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
[1] the use of the term `high-density' presumably referred to the fact
that they can increase the bits-per-track density on the outer tracks
because it isn't constrained by the length of the innermost track.
[2] i.e. as found in virtually everything other than a Mac, including
Acorn, Atari, Amiga, ..., as well as PCs.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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