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Re: Apple II 3.5" Controller and SuperDrive problems...



In article <19980307074501.CAA12289@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
	supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
> CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
> 
>>On 4 Mar 1998 05:08:35 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
> You are right that you can't erase a 720K MFM disk into an 800K
> GCR disk.  You can, however, erase a 1.44MB MFM disk into a
> 1.44MB MFM disk, which is what is happening with a ProDOS
> erase of an MS-DOS disk.

Now this must be some characteristic of the Apple IIgs operating
system.  If I attempt to erase (not format) an MS-DOS 1.44MB disk
with Copy II+ it reports "not a ProDOS disk," and quits.

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