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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Mounting Mac floppys Date: 1 Oct 1996 14:36:28 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <52ra9c$5tg@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <52gkvm$cva@shiva.usa.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E steve@smallweb.com (Steve Suhre) wrote: > I'm running BSDI 2.0 on a PC and really need to be able to write to and > read from Mac floppys. Anyone have any experience with this? Is there a > 'mount-dos' command for Mac filesystems? I doubt you'll have a chance in getting any information out of Mac 800 KB floppies; they are hardware-wise incompatible with the PeeCee floppy controllers (two or three different densities across the surface). 1.44 MB floppies are hardware-wise the same as used in the PC world. There are at least third-party packages available to read them, something similar to the mtools for DOS media. Ask archie for a package called ``hfs'', or have a look into the FreeBSD `ports' (which will most likely compile on BSD/OS without further modifications). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j