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Re: How to Read 800K floppies??



Daniel Garcia writes:
> 
> I think it has to do with the fact that, in order to get 800K out of their
> floppies, the mac played some serious games with things like sectors per
> track, head speed, and such (the amiga did this as well).  Without driver
> level support (for the mac format) under linux, not sure what to tell you.
> 
> This is all my own opinion and how i recall it, and may be wrong :)

No you're right. I now remember that the apple 720K drive had variable
speed and the peecee drive cannot handle the ~800K floppies without
some funky hardware.

Thanks to all who responded.

PK


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