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- 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 :)
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- 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.
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- Thanks to all who responded.
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- PK
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