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From: bezanson@gumby.WISC.EDU (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 512K Mac/800K Drive
Message-ID: <480@gumby.WISC.EDU>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 23:42:58 EST
Article-I.D.: gumby.480
Posted: Sat Dec 13 23:42:58 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:20:16 EST
References: <127200001@inmet> <1034@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <567@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Manta Software Corporation
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Summary: MacServe will do the trick.

In article <567@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, bc@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre) writes:
> In article <1034@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>, mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah) writes:
> > ... If you are worried about compatibility however,
> > you can format an 800K disk as an MFS disk and you will have the extra
> > space in addition to compatibility.

> There is no way that I know of to make an 800K MFS disk. I wanted this
> to happen pretty badly for a certain application, but NOOOOO.
 
> If there is a way, please post it. I'm willing to be proven wrong!....bc

Well I hope this will help.  The MacServe manager has several formatting
options for hard disks, floppies, and it's partitions.  It allows you
to format them as HFS or MFS (regardless of size).  When HFS first came
out and still was heavily unsupported, I used 800K MFS floppies for a lot of
work.  Also, Infosphere (MacServe creators) says that the MFS formatter in
the manager produces a better/faster format than the standard MFS format
produced by the finder.  The only question is how to get the formatting
program.  It probably isn't worth the $150-$200 for MacServe just to format
you're disks MFS.  You could call infosphere to see about getting the
manager program alone, or cheaper/better - find a friend/dealer using MacServe
and ask them to make you a 800K MFS floppy.  You could save this and use a
copy program to make others.

Another way (I haven't actually tried this), is to format a standard 800K HFS
floppy.  Then reboot with an old system/finder (<3.0/5.0).  Now reformat
you 800K disk under the old MFS system.
	
Hope this helps.

[Standard Disclaimer: Just a satisfied MacServe User]


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Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson
Manta Software Corp.				  bezanson@gumby.wisc.edu