Alrighty.
My NeXTstation Turbo will read:
720 KB DOS, 1440 KB DOS, and 1.4 MB Mac disks.
It will *NOT* read 2880 KB DOS, or 800 KB Mac disks. (I didn't try single-sided DOS or Mac, figured it was rather pointless.)
"DOS" means formatted in PC DOS 7 with "format a: /u /f:" and either 2.88, 1.44 or 720 to force it to format the disk to the proper format. This formats the disk in "FAT12" format, which is the MS-DOS floppy disk standard.
It will format 2880 KB disks for its own use, though. NEXTSTEP also correctly calls it a "2880k" disk, not a "2.88 MB" disk.
For comparison, PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp 3 both format my DS, ED disk to 2931712 bytes (just shy of 2.8 MB.) NEXTSTEP 3.3 says "2.50 MB free". I can't figure out how to determine actual space. The command-line utility "du" doesn't work the same as on OS X.
My NeXTstation Turbo will read:
720 KB DOS, 1440 KB DOS, and 1.4 MB Mac disks.
It will *NOT* read 2880 KB DOS, or 800 KB Mac disks. (I didn't try single-sided DOS or Mac, figured it was rather pointless.)
"DOS" means formatted in PC DOS 7 with "format a: /u /f:" and either 2.88, 1.44 or 720 to force it to format the disk to the proper format. This formats the disk in "FAT12" format, which is the MS-DOS floppy disk standard.
It will format 2880 KB disks for its own use, though. NEXTSTEP also correctly calls it a "2880k" disk, not a "2.88 MB" disk.
For comparison, PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp 3 both format my DS, ED disk to 2931712 bytes (just shy of 2.8 MB.) NEXTSTEP 3.3 says "2.50 MB free". I can't figure out how to determine actual space. The command-line utility "du" doesn't work the same as on OS X.