Re: AE High density drive

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louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman) wrote:

>I have an Applied Engineering HD drive attached to my SuperDrive controller
>(along with an Apple SuperDrive).  I seem to remember reading somewhere that
>the AE drive could read and write Apple format 1.6 meg HD disks.
>
>Is this correct?  And if so, how do I convince the drive to perform this
>task?  If some special software is required, does anyone have it?

Correct.  You need a special AE 3.5 driver.  You must remove the
Apple 3.5 driver from the drivers folder for the AE driver for it to work
properly.  To get 1.6 meg format, you must NOT use the SuperDrive
controller and use instead the regular GS SmartPort.  You can't
boot from 1.6 meg disks.