Mac/gs<==> PC?

From: Richard A. Cini, Jr. <rcini_at_msn.com>
Date: Sun Apr 16 19:50:42 2000

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:02:01 -0600, Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
>
wrote:

<<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.>>

        My thought was to use TransMac98 on my PC, format the disk to 1.4mb and con
nect the SuperDrive to my SE30. That way, I can move compressed disk archive
s to the network for archival. The underlying activity here is to make archi
val copies of my existing 15-yr old diskettes and put images on my network.
If I can only get a Superdrive for the gs, I can move the programs over by 8
00k disks and then copy them to 1.4m.

<<If you have a CDROM burner, I'd be far more inclined to try burning a CD>>

        I do have one of these, and I'll probably burn a CD with the disk images on
it. Right now, I need to get the programs off of the diskettes onto a safe m
edia.

Rich
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