Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!gumby!bezanson 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 Lines: 36 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] -- Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson Manta Software Corp. bezanson@gumby.wisc.edu