On 5 Apr 2005, at 19:54, Brian Foster wrote:
> Apple Lisa, but I may be confused by its add-on HDD,
> whose physical format was weird with 528-byte physical
> sectors; I cannot specially recall if the Apple Lisa's
> flippies were weirdly physically formatted or not?)
I suspect they were - the earliest floppy format on the Mac was an 800K
format that physically couldn't be read by PC hardware, and it's a
reasonable assumption that this was inherited from the Lisa (I think
they were both descendants of the IWM). This is a disk format that
Linux never understood, for hardware reasons. (Note skilful hauling of
thread back on topic)
Niall
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