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Re: AEHD drive



On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:26:01 +0100, Pim Blokland <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:

>Why then can this Mac not read 1600K floppies, so that I could use 
>&@#$#^& HD disks for exchange with my GS?!?

I imagine it would be the same reason that you can't format 1600K
floppies on an Apple II with a SuperDrive controller.

I'm just guessing here but I imagine that the SWIM in Macs and on the
SuperDrive controller probably don't allow GCR encoding/decoding with
high density media.

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