Re: Shocked the Shit Outta Me!

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Morel <noprivatereplies@please.it> wrote:

> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> > This isn't strictly true.  You can do this, but only if you like losing
> > your data.
> 
> It's been a long time since I last stuck an HD disk in the 800K drive of
> a IIGS, but I seem to remember that GS/OS 6 would recognise it as an HD
> and refuse to format it as an 800K disk.

That would only be possible if the drive was a SuperDrive, and was
connected to a SuperDrive controller.  In this case you could trick the
drive by covering the extra hole with an opaque label.

The Apple 3.5 Drive doesn't even detect the high density indicator hole
in the disk.

I'm not sure what would happen if you had a SuperDrive connected to the
IIgs disk port.  The disk controller doesn't know about high density,
but the drive might do something special.