Mac/gs<==> PC

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Sat Apr 15 23:42:13 2000

Oh foo. I think you're right. I was thinking the current "superdrive" which
is a (usually) USB floppy drive with a 100mb disk as well as 1.44


>
> Um, isn't the Superdrive the 3.5" HD floppy that was available for the GS?
>
> Zane
>
>
> >You have a SCSI superdrive. I know there are IDE cards for the GS, but I
> >know NOTHING about them. I'd expect them to perform the same tho.
> >
> >I'm not sure how you're going to write to the superdisk in a fashion that the
> >GS can read. You *might* be able to format the superdisk on your PC
> >as an ISO9660 or a MAC CD, and then put the disk in the superdrive on the
> >GS before you power it up, so it thinks it has a CDROM mounted. Might.
> >CDROM support is a little dicy on GSOS, and whether the file system driver
> >will deal with a non-standard disk size I have no idea. That's what I'd
> >try first though.
> >
> >If you have a CDROM burner, I'd be far more inclined to try burning a CD
> >and reading THAT on the GS, but I never tried that either.
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Jim Strickland
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