Re: IIGS Partitions

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 25 Apr 2001 14:39:55 GMT, apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu
(ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>On a IIGS floppy, 1440K is max because I don't think the SuperDrive
>controller will handle 2880K volumes.  Thus, you gave the true 'practical'
>answer :-), but that is a hardware constraint - not a FST constraint.

It is possible that they put support into the MS-DOS FST to handle
2880 KB disks as that is a standard MS-DOS format.  I would imagine
that the FST is limited to handling 720 KB, 1440 KB and 2880 KB
volumes.

And just to get in a "back at ya", you can use 2880 KB drives on an
Apple II if you use ///SHH Systeme's BlueDisk controller card so it
isn't really a hardware constraint either.  :-)  At least, the
documentation for the cards says that it handles them.  I don't own
either the card or a 2880 KB drive so I have no first hand experience.

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