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

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

I've had success using Mac formatted Zip disks under Linux.
I just had to make sure I had support for Mac Partitions, and the Mac
filesystem.  Other than that, it worked flawlessly.

k

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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:

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> 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
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> glynn@sensei.co.uk on 06/03/99 08:57:00 AM
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> To:   linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
> cc:    (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
> Subject:  Re: [OT] Re: Can I mount a Mac disk?
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> Kendall Lister wrote:
> > > } > maybe... If there was a filesystem driver for it. You can't mount
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> > > } > 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?
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> > > Before you flame you should check your sources.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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