Re: 1.4M drive in a 800K case

[waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart)]

Mark Cummings wrote 
> Today I repaired an 800K Apple 3.5 Drive which needed a loading motor assy.
> I stole one from a spare 1.4M HD drive from a Mac. It worked.
> 
> Half way through the job, the penny dropped, and I thought why don't I just
> swap the whole mechanism instead of just the load motor assy.
> 
> So why shouldn't I ?
> Will it work exactly like the 800K drive, or is there some difference with
> the R/W heads or magnetic strength ?
> Has anyone done this ?
> Are there any advantages/disadvantages ?
> 
> BTW I have heard that you can use a FDHD drive on the GS smartport, but it
> will only work as an 800K drive, so that's what made me think of the
> problems using HD floppys in DD drives.

I've been using that conversion for quite a few years. Without a
superdrive
card the IIgs normally sees it as just a regular 800k drive.
Interestingly
if you install the AEHD driver it can tell DD from HD floppies in this
drive.
Wants to format the HD ones 1.6mb, which it can't. 
Out of curiosity I tried installing a HD mechanism into a 3.5 UniDisk.
Unfortunately while the 3.5" UniDisk used the same 800k mechanism as
the
platinum 3.5, the HD mechanism proved incompatible in this instance.

	Wayne