> > Hi everyone.
> > I was wondering ( because a need has arisen) in the same way that
> say
> > an image from gimp or somewhere can be written to a dos formatted
> > diskette can the same be written to a Mac formatted diskette ?
> > Phil
> >
> [MB's comment:] I would think not, since Mac uses a different
> type of drive, i.e it actually varies spin speed depending on where on
> the floppy it is reading from. Something a 'PC' diskdrive can't
> handle.
> At least there is no way in the DOS/WinNT world (as fas as I know, I
> best add) to read/write 1.44 MB Mac floppies. However, there is a
> possibility to write 720k Mac floppies on a PC, at least from DOS. It
> took some time to find, but the software to do it is out there....
>
[PT] You should be able to write 1.44 MB Mac OS
floppies from a PC as well (given a utility for it exists).
There is no special spin speed on the newer mac
floppy drives that I know of. I think that they differ
only in the interface and the ejection mechanism.
Same goes for Sun floppies.
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