From: weiss@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Gerhard Weiss AG v. Puttkamer)
Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
Keywords: Spectre, Mac
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:25:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch> mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
>

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>> >2. Is the internal SCSI disk accesssible by the Mac?
>> 
>> Yes.  You just have to set up separate partitions for Atari and Mac use.
>
>*******  I disagree !  **********
>	 A very important point - for me, it is _not_ possible to use
>_any_ internal drive with TT and Spectre; Dave Small also states this in the manual. If John
>can tell me how to do this, I would be very happy, but I think not!
>	I am running Spectre off an external drive, an Atari 60 Mb connected through the laser,
>and configured as ACSI 0. Incidentally, at the moment (I have had the beast three days) I am
>UNABLE to transvert to or from this disk, which irritates the hell out of me.
>
> 
>> >3. Does anybody have a similar configuration who can report me about his or
>> > her experience and problems?
>> 
>> I'll leave this to others who may have a TT and GCR.  But one problem you
>> may first encounter is the inability of the TT's internal drive to read/write
>> in Mac 800K format (the GCR does not support 1.44Mb... yet).  The easiest fix
>> is to pick up an external DSDD SF314 for your floppy drive B and use it with
>> your Mac floppies.  That's what I did when the GCR wouldn't work with my
>> MSTE's internal floppy.
>> 
>	That's good to know! I wondered what was happening with my floppies. Is there
>really no way to use Mac floppies? Damn.
>
>QUESTION:	How can I transvert Atari -> Mac? The floppy doesn't work, the internal SCSI
>		doesn't work, Transverter refuses to recognize the (functional) MAC partitions
>		on my external ACSI, ...   I think I feel an email to Dave Small coming on .. 
>
>Mike M.
>
I know, this is not a solution to the above problems, but did you know that
it is possible to use the same floppy on Spectre and Mac without transverting?

First time I did not belief that, but its really simple to do!

Take a Mac that is able to read and write HD-Disks (i.e. has a FDHD Drive),
start Apple`s utility to convert files to MS-DOS (I don`t know the
english name of it) and select the menu entry to format a disk.
Normaly you have only the choice between formating 1.44 Mb or 720 kb MS-DOS
Disks or 1.44 Mb or 800 kb Apple Disks. If you click onto the disk icon
you are able to choose 720 kb Apple Disks. If you format
the Disk in this manner you get a 720kB Apple Disk, that is formated in MFM!
This disk can be read by any Mac (with FDHD) AND by Spectre 3.0 without any
additional tool!
By the way: this formating can be done by Spectre, too. The Mac OS on
Spectre believes to live on a Mac Plus with a FDHD with only double density.

Have joy

Gerd

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