Re: AEHD drive

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

I keep hearing all this talk about an AE drive, and it got me to wondering 
about an AE 3.5" Disk Drive (that's what the label on the bottom says) that 
also has a sticker on it that says 1Q 1992 (which I would assume would mean 
first quarter of 1992)...  Could this possibly be a larger than 800K floppy 
that just needs a special driver?  I can't format/write/read any floppies with 
it though it does at least try.  The Apple 800K is the one that I have been 
using all along.  Would be nice to be able to make this thing able to work 
with MS-DOS disks if possible!  BTW, this is on a //GS running 6.0.1 in case 
it wasn't clear...

In article <nipp-854EB9.14255815012000@news.planet.nl>, Pim Blokland 
<nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:
>In article <20000115015913.07485.00000060@ng-fj1.aol.com>, 
>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> That's correct, but the important thing is that it supports the
>> 1.44MB MFM format.  On the IIGS, you can format a 1.44MB
>> HFS disk that is COMPLETELY compatible with Macs!
>
>Can you also make GS/OS boot disks?
>I would have liked to have a spare boot disk with more than 800K on it, 
>for 800K won't hold anything but the bare system itself. And that only 
>if you resort to tricks like throwing away half the "TSx" files. But 
>when I make a 1600K boot disk with the AE drive, the machine will not 
>start up from it.
>I assume that's caused by the fact that without the driver software, the 
>machine thinks that it is a 800K drive. Would such a card (or any UDC 
>type card) help the machine recognize a HD drive as a bootable device?