Re: Read //gs disks on Intel?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Roger Johnstone wrote:

> I've done that. My iMac has a D19 socket on the side where I can plug in the
> Apple 3.5 Drive from my IIgs. It reads and writes 800KB Apple II (or Mac)
> disks perfectly. Or rather it did, until I upgraded from Mac OS 8.1 to 9.
> Now the Mac won't see the drive :-(  At some point (8.5 or 8.6) Apple
> removed support for the iMacs internal drive controller (Apple: Floppy
> drive? What floppy drive?). It still works if I boot into 8.1 though. But it
> doesn't worry me now, since I've got a portable IIgs! A PowerBook, with
> SuperDrive, LocalTalk and ethernet, plus Bernie ][ The Rescue!

Interesting, on the beige G3 the floppy drive still functions but I guess they
had to make sure of that. I forget which OS(8,8.5?) I stopped being able to
write to a ProDOS disk without having the system lock up solid. I could still
format and read ProDOS disks though. I wonder if I'll be able to even read
ProDOS disks in the OS 10 system itself

    Wayne