Re: High Density on GS

["TigerShark" <TigerShark@oceans.com>]

Nope. I booted with a floppy inside. Didn't recognize it. I selected
"Initialize"  for some unknown reason, ithe only option available was
32MB ProDOS. WOuldn't THAT be cool. 32MB from a 1.44MB Floppy!



S
"Peter Watson" <paw77@NOhotmailSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:3O5c8.2258$Uy2.10765@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Wow, I haven't seen one of those (apart from mine!) in a long time.
>
> The short answer is that it *should* work with GS/OS. The longer answer is
> that
> you'd have to try. There *may* be some of the same sorts of issues with
> being
> a "removable" drive that Zip drives have (depending on SCSI card and
> drivers).
>
> Since I had Apple's SuperDrive, I only ever tried mine once or twice to
> prove that
> it worked. There is one interesting quirk. I used it to create one of the
> world's few
> partitioned 3.5" floppies! As far as GS/OS is concerned, it's just a very
> small, very
> slow SCSI hard drive.
>
> Re 1.6MB HFS floppies, I can't think why a 1.44MB drive should be able to
> create
> 1.6MB floppies. You might be think of the Applied Engineering drive that
was
> a 1.6MB
> drive to begin with.
> --
> Peter Watson
> -- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
> -- Impossible!  ;-)
>
> "Sharkonwheels" <readmy@signature.com> wrote in message
> news:l82c8.27805$a66.449053@news.easynews.com...
> > I have a SCSI 1.44 MB floppy drive (from a DEC)
> > Will this work as a removable on GS/OS ? As a floppy,
> > and be able to use the MSDOS FST? 1.6MB HFS
> > floppies? Use 1.44Mb ProDOS floppies?
> >
> >
> > Tony
> > tonym -AT- compusource -DOT- net
>
>
>